Usually means: Eager to learn or know.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word curious:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. curious: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. curious: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. curious: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. curious: Collins English Dictionary
  5. curious: Vocabulary.com
  6. Curious, curious: Wordnik
  7. curious: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. curious: Wiktionary
  9. curious: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. curious: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. curious: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Curious, curious: Dictionary.com
  13. curious: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. curious: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Curious (Danny Fernandes song), Curious (Hayley Kiyoko song), Curious (Tony Yayo song), Curious (Yellow), Curious (disambiguation), Curious (fragrance), Curious: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Curious: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. curious: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. curious: Rhymezone
  19. curious: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. curious: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. CURIOUS: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. curious: Free Dictionary
  23. curious: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. curious: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. curious: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. curious: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. curious: Encyclopedia

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CURIOUS: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Curious: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See curiousness as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Tending to ask questions, or to want to explore or investigate; inquisitive; (with a negative connotation) nosy, prying.
adjective:  Caused by curiosity.
adjective:  Leading one to ask questions about; somewhat odd, out of the ordinary, or unusual.
adjective:  (obsolete) Careful, fastidious, particular; (specifically) demanding a high standard of excellence, difficult to satisfy.
adjective:  (obsolete) Carefully or artfully constructed; made with great elegance or skill.
adjective:  (inorganic chemistry, rare) Containing or pertaining to trivalent curium.
adjective:  (LGBTQ) Clipping of bi-curious. [(LGBTQ) Interested in having relationships with both men and women, curious about one's potential bisexuality; especially, of heterosexual people, considering a first sexual experience with a member of the same sex.]

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