curiouser

Adjective

curious (comparative more curious or curiouser, superlative most curious or curiousest)

1. Tending to ask questions, or to want to explore or investigate; inquisitive; (with a negative connotation) nosy, prying.
   • Young children are naturally curious about the world and everything in it.

   Synonyms:

   enquiring, inquiring, exquisitive, investigative, peery

   Antonyms:

   incurious, noncurious, uncurious

2. Caused by curiosity.
   • But he to ſhifte their curious requeſt, / Gan cauſen, why ſhe could not come in place; [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 26, page 534
3. Leading one to ask questions about; somewhat odd, out of the ordinary, or unusual.
   • The platypus is a curious creature, with fur like a mammal and a beak like a bird.

   Synonyms:

   aberrant, abnormal, alien, anomalous, as queer as Dick's hatband, bizarre, booky, deviant, discrepant, eerie

   Antonyms:

   uncurious

4. (in-compounds) Interested in entering a romantic or sexual relationship with a specified group.
   • On the app I’d ultimately go with, I presented myself truthfully, as a Republican-curious woman tired of the Democrats’ hopelessness and constant pivoting during a highly charged election year.2025 February 18, Vera Papisova, “I Spent Nearly a Year on a Conservative Dating App as a Liberal—Here’s What I Learned”, in Cosmopolitan
5. (obsolete) Careful, fastidious, particular; (specifically) demanding a high standard of excellence, difficult to satisfy.
   • Honourable even in the curiousest pointes of honour, whereout there can no disgrace nor disperagement come unto her.c. 1580 (date written), Philip Sidney, “(please specify the folio)”, in [Mary Sidney], editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia […] [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William...
6. (obsolete) Carefully or artfully constructed; made with great elegance or skill.
   • To honour which a worlde of people reſorted unto the Lord de Bolognas caſtle; for the intertainment of whiche gueſtes, there neither wanted coſtly cheare, curious ſhewes, or pleaſaunt deviſes, that eyther money, friendſhip or cunning might compaſſe.1576, George Whetstone, “The Castle of Delight: […]”, in The Rocke of Regard, […], London: […] [H. Middleton] for Robert Waley, →OCLC; republished in J[ohn] P[ayne] Collier, editor, The Rocke of...

See all 7 meanings of curious