Synonym: inquisitive, odd, peculiar, queer, strange, unusual. Antonym: incurious, indifferent, unconcerned, uninterested. Similar words: various, mysterious, laboriously, security, centurion, anxious, dubious, envious. Meaning: ['kjʊərɪəs] adj. 1. beyond or deviating from the usual or expected 2. eager to investigate and learn or learn more (sometimes about others' concerns) 3. having curiosity aroused; eagerly interested in learning more.
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151. People have always been curious about exactly how life on earth began.
152. It is curious, however, that jurists seem to have been slow and cautious in proposing new wordings.
153. The Educorp catalogue also lists some more contemplative, or just curious, examples(http://sentencedict.com/curious.html), including the Bogie Stack.
154. It came from a tributary passage that lead off from the main corridor at a curious angle.
155. It is a curious fact that the Nizan Case was ultimately dominated more by fiction than by fact.
156. Even the wallabies, for whom bouncing around is a way of life, cast a curious glance.
157. Some of the men gave him curious looks because of the blood that had sheeted his right side.
158. Of course, the most curious of all former Salomon Brothers mortgage traders is Howie Rubin.
159. Darwin's theory was presented in the Origin in a curious way.
160. I believe there are no red-headed Civil Servants. How curious.
161. But the curious thing was that the idea had somehow and much against his will taken root in his consciousness.
162. The cat crouched uneasily in her arms, then uttered a curious low cry and struggled free.
163. Was it relevant to his enquiry, or just a curious coincidence?
164. Even with Owen, she attracted some curious glances from people at adjoining tables.
165. A curious fact which might seem at first to constitute an exception to this explanation turns out to provide further confirmation of it.
166. By the middle of the nineteenth century it had been firmly established that there was something curious about Mercury's orbit.
167. He held the door open and she passed through, followed by many curious glances.
168. Metaphors have a curious way of living beyond the point at which the evidence from which they grew has been discarded.
169. Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys? John Steinbeck
170. The curious leaps of Francie's mind require close attention from the reader.
171. I began to feel ashamed of my nosiness but I hadn't intended to be nosey: I was just curious.
172. It occurred to her for the first time that there were a couple of curious anomalies in her childhood.
173. It was just a curious coincidence that Hatton had been killed on the day following that of Mrs Fanshawe's regaining consciousness.
174. Outside the gallery a group of curious bystanders gathered, staring and leering at the nude painting.
175. We have Sigmund Freud to thank for a rather curious state of affairs.
176. And even more curious - they don't usually dispense £20 notes.
177. In came a previously undisclosed audiotape of a police interview with Butch Yunkin full of gaps, clicks and curious pauses.
178. Lagutin was the subject of a curious coincidence the following day.
179. The story behind the rumour is so curious, however, that it is worth telling none the less.
180. Which in turn made me curious as to why the numberdar was so anxious to have me along.
More similar words: various, mysterious, laboriously, security, centurion, anxious, dubious, envious, obvious, officious, previous, oblivious, vivacious, obviously, ambitious, bumptious, suspicious, previously, loquacious, pugnacious, subconsciously, consciousness, during, tourism, tourist, flourish, riot, prior, period, curve.