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Thesaurus: curious

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

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  1. a. Difficult to please or satisfy; solicitous to be correct; careful; scrupulous; nice; exact.
  2. a. Exhibiting care or nicety; artfully constructed; elaborate; wrought with elegance or skill.
  3. a. Careful or anxious to learn; eager for knowledge; given to research or inquiry; habitually inquisitive; prying; -- sometimes with after or of.
  4. a. Exciting attention or inquiry; awakening surprise; inviting and rewarding inquisitiveness; not simple or plain; strange; rare.
  5. adj. beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
  6. adj. eager to investigate and learn or learn more (sometimes about others' concerns)
  7. j:100 s. beyond or deviating from the usual or expected a. eager to investigate and learn or learn more (sometimes about others' concerns) s. having curiosity aroused; eagerly interested in learning more