Curious vs. Interested — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Curious and Interested
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Curious
Eager to learn more
Curious investigators.
A trapdoor that made me curious.
Interested
Having or showing curiosity, fascination, or concern
I'm interested to hear about your family.
Curious
Unduly inquisitive; prying
A curious neighbor always looking over the fence.
Interested
Possessing a right, claim, or stake
An interested party in the estate. See Usage Note at disinterested.
Curious
Arousing interest because of novelty or strangeness
A curious fact.
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Interested
Having or showing interest (attention or curiosity).
I'm very interested in going to see that play.
Curious
Accomplished with skill or ingenuity.
Interested
(less common) Having an interest (stake); being a stakeholder; motivated by considerations of self-interest; self-serving.
All interested parties [ ≈ all stakeholders]
Curious
Extremely careful; scrupulous or fastidious.
Interested
Owning a share of a company; being a shareholder.
Curious
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.
Interested
Simple past tense and past participle of interest
Curious
Caused by curiosity.
Interested
Having the attention engaged; having emotion or passion excited; as, an interested listener.
Curious
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.
Interested
Having an interest; concerned in a cause or in consequences; liable to be affected or prejudiced; as, an interested witness; an interested party.
Curious
(LGBT) bi-curious
Interested
Having or showing interest; especially curiosity or fascination or concern;
An interested audience
Interested in sports
Was interested to hear about her family
Interested in knowing who was on the telephone
Interested spectators
Curious
(obsolete) Careful, fastidious, particular; (specifically) demanding a high standard of excellence, difficult to satisfy.
Interested
Involved in or affected by or having a claim to or share in;
A memorandum to those concerned
An enterprise in which three men are concerned
Factors concerned in the rise and fall of epidemics
The interested parties met to discuss the business
Curious
(obsolete) Carefully or artfully constructed; made with great elegance or skill.
Curious
Containing or pertaining to trivalent curium. Category:en:Radioactivity
Curious
Difficult to please or satisfy; solicitous to be correct; careful; scrupulous; nice; exact.
Little curious in her clothes.
How shall we,If he be curious, work upon his faith?
Curious
Exhibiting care or nicety; artfully constructed; elaborate; wrought with elegance or skill.
To devise curious works.
His body couched in a curious bed.
Curious
Careful or anxious to learn; eager for knowledge; given to research or inquiry; habitually inquisitive; prying; - sometimes with after or of.
It is a pity a gentleman so very curious after things that were elegant and beautiful should not have been as curious as to their origin, their uses, and their natural history.
Curious
Exciting attention or inquiry; awakening surprise; inviting and rewarding inquisitiveness; not simple or plain; strange; rare.
A multitude of curious analogies.
Many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore.
Abstruse investigations in recondite branches of learning or sciense often bring to light curious results.
Many . . . which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them.
Curious
Beyond or deviating from the usual or expected;
A curious hybrid accent
Her speech has a funny twang
They have some funny ideas about war
Had an odd name
The peculiar aromatic odor of cloves
Something definitely queer about this town
What a rum fellow
Singular behavior
Curious
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
Curious investigators
Traffic was slowed by curious rubberneckers
Curious about the neighbor's doings
Curious
Having curiosity aroused; eagerly interested in learning more;
A trap door that made me curious
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