curious

Modifying Another Word

• intellectually: Welcome to a vibrant and intellectually curious and innovative student body.
• insatiably: The journal archives are a veritable font of information, and the glossary of terms is excellent; a must for the insatiably curious.
• terminally: But if you're really terminally curious, you can check out Section C.6.1
• naturally: Jackie, Greece Students are naturally curious about swear words.
• rather: It is rather curious that there's that piece of the United States, Alaska, tucked up in the top left hand corner.
• endlessly: I am also endlessly curious, which helps in any job, and I love words.

Infinitive complement

• know: Curious to know what happened to some of the others.
• observe: Under these circumstances I was curious to observe how far from the parent rock any pebbles could be found.
• see: I'm already curious to see how she'll fit into British repertory.
• hear: I am curious to hear different theories or interpretations.
• discover: I listened to episodes 3 and 4, curious to discover how it would all tie up but it didn't.
• find: I'm just curious to find out where the nicest car my family has ever owned has got to!

Modifies a noun

• coincidence: Either the body fell from the roof, or a very curious coincidence has occurred.
• incident: Let's see... Sleeping The sleeping wasn't all that notable, but there was a curious incident around about getting up time.
• onlooker: The performer earned a great deal of applause from the curious onlookers.
• mixture: We'll be following a bridleway through a curious mixture of pasture, woodland and heath.
• paradox: It is a curious paradox that this Rambo figure, this all-American hero, was the stereotype which these young revolutionaries had adopted.
• anomaly: How else can one account for this curious anomaly?

Used with adjective complement

• seem: Question: It does seem curious then that the oil ministry was so successfully protected and the hospitals so unsuccessfully.
• become: We're becoming more curious, " What's going on here?