One of the mysteries of the English language finally explained.
Synonyms of curious in English:
curious
See definition of curious
adjective
1‘she was obviously curious, but too polite to ask questions’
inquisitive, intrigued, interested, eager to know, dying to know, burning with curiosity, agog
quizzical, enquiring, searching, probing, querying, questioning, interrogative
perplexed, puzzled, baffled, mystified
informal nosy, nosy-parker, snoopy
Northern English Scottish nebby
uninterested
2‘her curious behaviour intrigued him’
strange, odd, peculiar, funny, unusual, bizarre, weird, eccentric, queer, unexpected, unfamiliar, abnormal, out of the ordinary, atypical, anomalous, untypical, different, out of the way, surprising, incongruous, extraordinary, remarkable, puzzling, mystifying, mysterious, perplexing, baffling, unaccountable, inexplicable, irregular, singular, offbeat, unconventional, unorthodox, outlandish, off-centre, aberrant, freak, freakish, deviant
uncanny, eerie, unnatural
British out of the common
outré
Scottish unco
informal off the wall, wacky
British informal rum
North American informal wacko
ordinary