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Curious

Difficult to please or satisfy; solicitous to be correct; careful; scrupulous; nice; exact.

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Inquisitive 84% connected

Disposed to ask questions, especially in matters which do not concern the inquirer.

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Inquisitive 84% connected

Disposed to ask questions, especially in matters which do not concern the inquirer.

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Overcurious 84% connected

Too curious.

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Overcurious 84% connected

Too curious.

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Prying 84% connected

of Pry

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Prying 84% connected

of Pry

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Questioning 84% connected

of Question

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Questioning 84% connected

of Question

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Speculative 84% connected

Given to speculation; contemplative.

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Speculative 84% connected

Given to speculation; contemplative.

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Strange 84% connected

Belonging to another country; foreign.

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Strange 84% connected

Belonging to another country; foreign.

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Unusual 84% connected

Not usual; uncommon; rare; as, an unusual season; a person of unusual grace or erudition.

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Unusual 84% connected

Not usual; uncommon; rare; as, an unusual season; a person of unusual grace or erudition.

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Wondering 84% connected

of Wonder

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Wondering 84% connected

of Wonder

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Derivationally related 6

Curiosity 74% connected

The state or quality or being curious; nicety; accuracy; exactness; elaboration.

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Curiosity 74% connected

The state or quality or being curious; nicety; accuracy; exactness; elaboration.

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Curiousness 74% connected

Carefulness; painstaking.

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Curiousness 74% connected

Carefulness; painstaking.

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Foreignness 74% connected

The quality of being foreign; remoteness; want of relation or appropriateness.

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Foreignness 74% connected

The quality of being foreign; remoteness; want of relation or appropriateness.

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See also 4

Synonym 7

Funny 92% connected

Droll; comical; amusing; laughable.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Odd 92% connected

Not paired with another, or remaining over after a pairing; without a mate; unmatched; single; as, an odd shoe; an odd glove.

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Peculiar 92% connected

One's own; belonging solely or especially to an individual; not possessed by others; of private, personal, or characteristic possession and use; not…

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Queer 92% connected

At variance with what is usual or normal; differing in some odd way from what is ordinary; odd; singular; strange; whimsical; as, a queer story or ac…

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Rum 92% connected

A kind of intoxicating liquor distilled from cane juice, or from the scummings of the boiled juice, or from treacle or molasses, or from the lees of…

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Rummy 92% connected

Of or pertaining to rum; characteristic of rum; as a rummy flavor.

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Singular 92% connected

Separate or apart from others; single; distinct.

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Antonym 2

Incurious 94% connected

Not curious or inquisitive; without care for or interest in; inattentive; careless; negligent; heedless.

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Open English WordNet records these words as lexical opposites.

Incurious 94% connected

Not curious or inquisitive; without care for or interest in; inattentive; careless; negligent; heedless.

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Open English WordNet records these words as lexical opposites.

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