Dictionary Entry
curious
curious is a 7-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Difficult to please or satisfy; solicitous to be correct; careful; scrupulous; nice; exact. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 12 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Difficult to please or satisfy; solicitous to be correct; careful; scrupulous; nice; exact.
- 2adjective
Exhibiting care or nicety; artfully constructed; elaborate; wrought with elegance or skill.
- 3adjective
Careful or anxious to learn; eager for knowledge; given to research or inquiry; habitually inquisitive; prying; -- sometimes with after or of.
- 4adjective
Exciting attention or inquiry; awakening surprise; inviting and rewarding inquisitiveness; not simple or plain; strange; rare.
- 5adjective
eager to investigate and learn or learn more (sometimes about others' concerns)
"a curious child is a teacher's delight"
"a trap door that made me curious"
- 6adjective
beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
"a curious hybrid accent"
"her speech has a funny twang"
- 7adjective
having curiosity aroused; eagerly interested in learning more
"a trap door that made me curious"
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