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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Eager to acquire knowledge: inquiring, inquisitive, investigative, questioning. See INVESTIGATE. 2. Unduly interested in the affairs of others: inquisitive, inquisitorial. Informal : nosy, snoopy. See INVESTIGATE. 3. Deviating from the customary: bizarre, cranky, eccentric, erratic, freakish, idiosyncratic, odd, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, queer, quirky, singular, strange, unnatural, unusual, weird. Slang : kooky, screwball. British Slang : rum, rummy2. See USUAL. 4. Causing puzzlement; perplexing: funny, odd, peculiar, queer, strange, weird. See USUAL.
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