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curious, inquiring, prying, speculative, questioning, interested, intrusive, meddling, meddlesome, searching, challenging, analytical, poking, sifting, scrutinizing, investigative, querying, inquisitorial, forward, presumptuous, impertinent, snoopy*, nosy*, long-nosed*, rubbernecking*, big-eyed*, consumed with curiosity*; see also interested 1, meddlesome.

Antonyms indifferent*, unconcerned, aloof.

inquisitive implies a habitual tendency to be curious, esp. about matters that do not concern one, and an attempt to gain information by persistent questioning; curious implies eagerness or anxiousness to find out things and may suggest a wholesome desire to be informed; meddlesome suggests unwelcome intrusion into the affairs of others; prying suggests an officious inquisitiveness and meddlesomeness that persists against resistance

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