English-Italian translations for curious

• curioso
  L'aspetto curioso è il contrasto con il Consiglio. The curious point is the contrast with the Council.
  Sarei curioso di sentire la sua risposta. I would be curious to hear your response.
  Propendo quindi per accantonare questo curioso dibattito. I am therefore in favour of abandoning this curious debate.
• incuriosito
  Il Consiglio ogni anno ha dato il via libera alla Commissione per il discarico, cosa che mi ha incuriosito. Every year, the Council has given the Commission the green light in its discharge, so I became curious.
• strano
  Trovo strano che all'EFSA siano occorsi tre mesi per valutare lo studio Séralini. I find it curious that EFSA needed three months to evaluate the Séralini study.
  Riguardo a questa funzione della Presidenza, il Primo Ministro irlandese ha mantenuto uno strano riserbo. This is a function of the presidency on which the Taoiseach was curiously discreet.
  È alquanto strano che in una relazione sulla salute delle donne venga affermato quello che viene definito il diritto all'aborto. It is surely rather curious for a report on women's health to call for the alleged right to abortion.

Definition of curious

• tend#Verb|Tending to ask#Verb|ask question#Noun|questions, or to want#Verb|want to explore or investigate; inquisitive; nosy, prying#Adjective|prying
• cause#Verb|Caused by curiosity
• lead#Verb|Leading one to ask questions about; somewhat odd, out of the ordinary, or unusual
• Careful, fastidious, particular; demand#Verb|demanding a high#Adjective|high standard#Noun|standard of excellence, difficult to satisfy
• Carefully or artfully construct#Verb|constructed; make#Verb|made with great elegance or skill#Noun|skill

Examples

• Young children are naturally curious about the world and everything in it
• The platypus is a curious creature, with fur like a mammal and a beak like a bird

Related words

• curiously
• bi-curious
• incurious
• incuriously
• incuriousness
• bicurious
• heterocurious
• homocurious
• be curious