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Curious

adjective

Beyond or deviating from the usual or expected. Synonyms: funny, odd, peculiar, queer, rum, rummy, singular. "Her speech has a funny twang" , "They have some funny ideas about war" , "Had an odd name" , "The peculiar aromatic odor of cloves" , "Something definitely queer about this town" , "What a rum fellow" , "Singular behavior"

Eager to investigate and learn or learn more (sometimes about others' concerns). "A trap door that made me curious" , "Curious investigators" , "Traffic was slowed by curious rubberneckers" , "Curious about the neighbor's doings"

Having curiosity aroused; eagerly interested in learning more.

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"Curious" Quotes from Famous Books

... an edifice the Casino disappoints, and if one is not pressingly curious about the interior, one rather lingers on the terrace overlooking the sea, and the lines of the railroad following the shore, and the panorama of the several towns. It is charming to sit there, and if it is in the afternoon, you may see an artist there painting water-colors ...

— Roman Holidays and Others • W. D. Howells

... of Friedland is described in Lord Hutcbinson's despatch (Records: Prussia, vol. 200—in which volume are also Colonel Sonntag's reports, containing curious details about the Russians, and some personal matter about Napoleon in a letter from an inhabitant of Eylau; also Gneisenau's appeal ...

— History of Modern Europe 1792-1878 • C. A. Fyffe

... operation, some of its important provisions being limited to take effect at dates yet in the future. The general provisions of the law have been in force less than sixty days. Its permanent effects upon trade and prices still largely stand in conjecture. It is curious to note that the advance in the prices of articles wholly unaffected by the tariff act was by many hastily ascribed to that act. Notice was not taken of the fact that the general tendency of the markets was upward, from influences wholly apart from the recent ...

— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

... the worlds I ever broke into, this one's the most curious," said Red. "And one of the curiousest things in it is that I think it's queer. Why should I, now? What put it into our heads that affairs ought to go so and so and so, when they never do anything of the sort? Take any book ...

— Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters • Henry Wallace Phillips

... as something dreadful, incomprehensible, and curious! What can he be telling the other with such warmth?" she thought, staring at two men who walked by. "Can one ever tell anyone what one is feeling? I meant to tell Dolly, and it's a good thing I didn't tell her. How pleased she would have been at my misery! She would have concealed ...

— Anna Karenina • Leo Tolstoy

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