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Synonyms of curious in English:

curious


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adjective

1‘she was obviously curious, but too polite to ask questions’

SYNONYMS
inquisitive, intrigued, interested, eager to know, dying to know, burning with curiosity, agog
quizzical, inquiring, searching, probing, querying, questioning, interrogative
perplexed, puzzled, baffled, mystified
informal nosy, nosy-parker, snoopy
Scottish, Northern English nebby
ANTONYMS

uninterested

2‘her curious behaviour intrigued him’

SYNONYMS
strange, odd, peculiar, funny, unusual, bizarre, weird, eccentric, queer, unexpected, unfamiliar, abnormal, out of the ordinary, atypical, anomalous, untypical, different, out of the way, surprising, incongruous, extraordinary, remarkable, puzzling, mystifying, mysterious, perplexing, baffling, unaccountable, inexplicable, irregular, singular, offbeat, unconventional, unorthodox, outlandish, off-centre, aberrant, freak, freakish, deviant
uncanny, eerie, unnatural
British out of the common
outré
Scottish unco
informal off the wall, wacky
British informal rum
North American informal wacko
ANTONYMS

ordinary