Curious
adjective
Interested to know or learn something new.
I'm curious about your cooking ideas.
Often appears as...
- curious about
- curious to know
adjective
Strange or unusual.
It's curious that she didn't show up to the meeting.
Often appears as...
- curious case
- curious incident
adjective
Interested to know or learn something new.
I'm curious about your cooking ideas.
Often appears as...
- curious about
- curious to know
adjective
Strange or unusual.
It's curious that she didn't show up to the meeting.
Often appears as...
- curious case
- curious incident
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Drive
Use 'curious' to express a strong desire to learn or know about something
She was so curious about space that she read all books available on astronomy.
Pro Tip 2/3Polite Inquiry
'Curious' softens questions, making them sound more polite and less intrusive
I'm curious, how did you manage to solve that difficult problem?
Pro Tip 3/3Positive Connotation
Using 'curious' often implies a positive attitude towards learning and discovery
His curious nature made him an excellent researcher.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Drive
Use 'curious' to express a strong desire to learn or know about something
She was so curious about space that she read all books available on astronomy.
Pro Tip 2/3Polite Inquiry
'Curious' softens questions, making them sound more polite and less intrusive
I'm curious, how did you manage to solve that difficult problem?
Pro Tip 3/3Positive Connotation
Using 'curious' often implies a positive attitude towards learning and discovery
His curious nature made him an excellent researcher.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Drive
Use 'curious' to express a strong desire to learn or know about something
She was so curious about space that she read all books available on astronomy.
Pro Tip 2/3Polite Inquiry
'Curious' softens questions, making them sound more polite and less intrusive
I'm curious, how did you manage to solve that difficult problem?
Pro Tip 3/3Positive Connotation
Using 'curious' often implies a positive attitude towards learning and discovery
His curious nature made him an excellent researcher.
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How to raise a Black son...
that you cannot simply be curious, that you are not afforded the luxury of making a mistake, that someone's implicit bias might be the reason you don't wake up in the morning. But this cannot be what defines us. Because we have parents who raised us to understand that our bodies weren't meant for the backside of a bullet,
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Life-changing encounter...
It was the most incredible feeling, actually this felt like the first time in my life that I had ever had an encounter with a truly wild animal, where the animal was just simply curious about who I was. And these birds were so inquisitive and fearless that it was, it was really quite extraordinary.
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Should we be looking for...
to deny the very pioneering spirits that help shape our own species. We are all born curious about the world and the universe. Pursuing that curiosity is one of humankind's greatest achievements. Perhaps there is room to push the frontiers of science, provided that we cradle alongside our fervor
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Daydreaming: The bridge...
know kids are naturally curious about what they don't know or don't understand or as far into them they only learn to be frightened of those differences when an adult influences them to behave that I just pictured a first-grade teacher out in the lobby with these unruly kids
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How To Levitate PIPE The...
Ta-da! So I've got in touch with YouTube creators across the world -What's that? -Liquid nitrogen, superconductor. and together, we're going to try and find the cutting-edge science and technology I'm super curious to know how all this works. This is cool.
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How do schools of fish...
become sufficiently complex, and curious to begin studying their own biological origins, not to mention emergence. And what we found in emergent phenomena at vastly different scales is that same remarkable characteristic as the fish
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Let's talk about sex -...
That was the worst year. I was obsessively curious about sex and also deeply ashamed by it. It wasn't my only problem, of course, not by a long shot, but it was the beginning of a downward spiral. And my bad luck was to hit bottom
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Ghosts: Is It Real? PIPE...
something like a transporter malfunction beaming from the here and now to the Hereafter that malfunction is usually caused by some sort of major trauma like murder or suicide curiously it said these spirits
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Questions No One Knows...
It doesn't. It's actually the opposite. The more you know, the more amazing the world seems. And it's the crazy possibilities, the unanswered questions, that pull us forward. So stay curious.
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Adorable Seal Pup Starts...
Since birth, this pup has tripled in weight and he's now at ease in this curious other world.
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How to raise a Black son...
that you cannot simply be curious, that you are not afforded the luxury of making a mistake, that someone's implicit bias might be the reason you don't wake up in the morning. But this cannot be what defines us. Because we have parents who raised us to understand that our bodies weren't meant for the backside of a bullet,
Video examples
Life-changing encounter...
It was the most incredible feeling, actually this felt like the first time in my life that I had ever had an encounter with a truly wild animal, where the animal was just simply curious about who I was. And these birds were so inquisitive and fearless that it was, it was really quite extraordinary.
Video examples
Should we be looking for...
to deny the very pioneering spirits that help shape our own species. We are all born curious about the world and the universe. Pursuing that curiosity is one of humankind's greatest achievements. Perhaps there is room to push the frontiers of science, provided that we cradle alongside our fervor
Video examples
Daydreaming: The bridge...
know kids are naturally curious about what they don't know or don't understand or as far into them they only learn to be frightened of those differences when an adult influences them to behave that I just pictured a first-grade teacher out in the lobby with these unruly kids
Video examples
How To Levitate PIPE The...
Ta-da! So I've got in touch with YouTube creators across the world -What's that? -Liquid nitrogen, superconductor. and together, we're going to try and find the cutting-edge science and technology I'm super curious to know how all this works. This is cool.
Video examples
How do schools of fish...
become sufficiently complex, and curious to begin studying their own biological origins, not to mention emergence. And what we found in emergent phenomena at vastly different scales is that same remarkable characteristic as the fish
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Let's talk about sex -...
That was the worst year. I was obsessively curious about sex and also deeply ashamed by it. It wasn't my only problem, of course, not by a long shot, but it was the beginning of a downward spiral. And my bad luck was to hit bottom
Video examples
Ghosts: Is It Real? PIPE...
something like a transporter malfunction beaming from the here and now to the Hereafter that malfunction is usually caused by some sort of major trauma like murder or suicide curiously it said these spirits
Video examples
Questions No One Knows...
It doesn't. It's actually the opposite. The more you know, the more amazing the world seems. And it's the crazy possibilities, the unanswered questions, that pull us forward. So stay curious.
Video examples
Adorable Seal Pup Starts...
Since birth, this pup has tripled in weight and he's now at ease in this curious other world.
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Quote examples
Jerry Lewis
American Comedian
I think it has helped that I am so curious about what has been happening to me and that I have enjoyed watching the changes through my life, you know? I didn't know what was going to happen to me next.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
American Scientist
I'm often asked by parents what advice can I give them to help get kids interested in science? And I have only one bit of advice. Get out of their way. Kids are born curious. Period.
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Stephen Hawking
English Physicist
Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.
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Taylor Swift
American Singer
Even if you're happy with the life you've chosen, you're still curious about the other options.
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Mark Twain
American Writer
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
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Pooja Bhatt
Indian Director
I stopped acting, as I was not curious about it anymore. I was not passionate about acting.
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Mariel Hemingway
American Actress
I think we should be passionately curious about what we do.
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Albert Einstein
German Physicist
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
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Rosemary Mahoney
American Writer
I'm very curious about the world, foreign cultures.
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Lee Je-hoon
I'm interested in characters that make me curious.
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Jerry Lewis
American Comedian
I think it has helped that I am so curious about what has been happening to me and that I have enjoyed watching the changes through my life, you know? I didn't know what was going to happen to me next.
Quote examples
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American Scientist
I'm often asked by parents what advice can I give them to help get kids interested in science? And I have only one bit of advice. Get out of their way. Kids are born curious. Period.
Quote examples
Stephen Hawking
English Physicist
Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.
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Taylor Swift
American Singer
Even if you're happy with the life you've chosen, you're still curious about the other options.
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Mark Twain
American Writer
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Quote examples
Pooja Bhatt
Indian Director
I stopped acting, as I was not curious about it anymore. I was not passionate about acting.
Quote examples
Mariel Hemingway
American Actress
I think we should be passionately curious about what we do.
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Albert Einstein
German Physicist
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
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Rosemary Mahoney
American Writer
I'm very curious about the world, foreign cultures.
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Lee Je-hoon
I'm interested in characters that make me curious.
Example 1 of 10
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