curious
Meaning of curious
adjective
- Tending to ask questions, or to want to explore or investigate; inquisitive; (with a negative connotation) nosy, prying.
Young children are naturally curious about the world and everything in it.
- Caused by curiosity.
- Leading one to ask questions about; somewhat odd, out of the ordinary, or unusual.
The platypus is a curious creature, with fur like a mammal and a beak like a bird.
- Careful, fastidious, particular; (specifically) demanding a high standard of excellence, difficult to satisfy.
- Carefully or artfully constructed; made with great elegance or skill.
Information about curious
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of curious
cu-ri-ous
- It consists of 3 syllables and 7 chars.
- curious is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
curious synonyms
Meaning funny:
funny, odd, peculiar, queer, rum, rummy, singular
Meaning :
exquisitive, investigative, peery
curious antonyms
Meaning :
incurious, noncurious, uncurious
Translation of curious
- French: curieux, indiscret, bizarre, étrange, inusuel, inhabituel
- German: neugierig, wißbegierig, wissensdurstig, komisch, kurios, sonderbar, merkwürdig
- Italian: curioso, indiscreto, strano, inusuale, bizzarro
- Spanish: curioso, indiscreto, inquisitivo, indagador, raro, extraño, extraña, inusual, rara, curiosa
- Portuguese: curioso
Words that rhyme with curious
aerobious, amphibious, anaerobious, antiscabious, dubious, helobious, hematobious, indubious, microbious, nonamphibious, rabious, rubious, scabious, stibious, superbious, superdubious, triphibious, undubious, Delicious, Procious, acinacious, ametoecious, androdioecious, andromonoecious, appendicious, artificious, astucious, atrocious, audacious, auspicious, autecious, autoecious, avaricious, bibacious, bodacious, boldacious, bowdacious, capacious, capricious, cilicious, coconscious, cogracious, conconscious, conscious, contumacious, curvacious, delicious, dicacious, diecious, dioecious
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