curious

Wanting to find out or learn about things.

• Children are naturally curious.
• I was curious about her new job.
• Are you curious to know what happened?

How to use it: curious about someone/something (She is curious about life abroad.); curious to do something (I was curious to see the results.)

Similar words: inquisitive, interested

Opposites: uninterested

Common phrases: curious about something, curious child, curious to know

Strange or unusual in a way that makes you wonder about it.

• That is a curious noise.
• We noticed a curious mark on the wall.
• It was curious that nobody remembered his name.

How to use it: it is curious that… (It is curious that both letters arrived today.)

Similar words: odd, strange, unusual

Opposites: ordinary

Common phrases: a curious thing, curious coincidence, curious behavior, curious creature