curious

IPA: kjˈʊriʌs

Tending to ask questions, or to want to explore or investigate; inquisitive; (with a negative connotation) nosy, prying.
Caused by curiosity.
Leading one to ask questions about; somewhat odd, out of the ordinary, or unusual.
(obsolete) Careful, fastidious, particular; (specifically) demanding a high standard of excellence, difficult to satisfy.
(obsolete) Carefully or artfully constructed; made with great elegance or skill.
(chemistry, rare) Containing or pertaining to trivalent curium.
(LGBT) Clipping of bi-curious. [(LGBT) Interested in having relationships with both men and women, curious about one's potential bisexuality; especially, of heterosexual people, considering a first sexual experience with a member of the same sex.]

Examples of "curious" in Sentences

He is curious of his suitor.
The timing is curious to say the least.
The case resurged as people were curious.
He was curious and wanted to find the answer.
The date of signing of the first post is curious.
Independent, curious and alert, yet imperturbable.
He is curious as to the reappearance of the Twilight Bracelet.
It is as useless for the expert as it is for the curious bystander.
Lists of those questions are attractive to the intellectually curious.
There are late improvements in galvanism with a series of curious and interesting experiments.
“Maureen, this is Dr. Lewis,” she said when the older woman approached, her expression curious.
What I find rather curious is the swift pace that the enterprise and its end users areadopting the iPhone 4 and the iPad.
But some crazy (or maybe they prefer the term curious?) fans have discovered Rob's address and have attempted to scope out the scene for themselves.
As a 35-year-old feminist, the seemingly ubiquitous use of the term "post-feminist" seems to signal an ache on the part of those who use it to declare feminism dead and gone, despite very active momentum on various fronts and more than enough self-proclaimed feminists to render the use of the term curious.