You are too inquisitive about other people's affairs.
Source: tatoeba (15924)
Inquisitive
//ɪŋˈkwɪzətɪv//
Synonyms for "inquisitive" (62 found)
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Closest matches (13)
Strong matches (18)
Related words (31)
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2 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesderived
7 entriesrelated to
5 entriessimilar
4 entriesTranslations
77 translations across 33 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- հետաքրքրասեր adj (eager to acquire knowledge)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- bilikcil adj (eager to acquire knowledge)
- maraqcıl adj (eager to acquire knowledge)
Bengali
1 entries- পর্যুৎসুক adj (eager to acquire knowledge)
Bulgarian
2 entries- досадно любопитен adj (too curious; overly interested; nosy)
- любознателен adj (eager to acquire knowledge)
Cebuano
2 entries- masukitsukiton adj (eager to acquire knowledge)
- mausisahon adj (eager to acquire knowledge)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 好奇 adj (eager to acquire knowledge)
Danish
2 entries- nysgerrig adj (eager to acquire knowledge)
- videbegærlig adj (eager to acquire knowledge)
Dutch
3 entries- leergierig adj (eager to acquire knowledge)
- nieuwsgierig adj (eager to acquire knowledge)
- nieuwsgierig adj (too curious; overly interested; nosy)
Esperanto
1 entries- scivola adj (eager to acquire knowledge)
Finnish
4 entries- tiedonhaluinen adj (eager to acquire knowledge)
- tiedonjanoinen adj (eager to acquire knowledge)
- tunkeileva adj (too curious; overly interested; nosy)
- utelias adj (eager to acquire knowledge)
French
1 entries- curieux adj (too curious; overly interested; nosy)
Galician
1 entries- inquisitivo adj (eager to acquire knowledge)
German
3 entries- neugierig adj (eager to acquire knowledge)
- neugierig adj (too curious; overly interested; nosy)
- wissbegierig adj (eager to acquire knowledge)
Hindi
3 entries- कुतूहली adj (eager to acquire knowledge)
- जिज्ञासु adj (eager to acquire knowledge)
- प्रश्नशील adj (eager to acquire knowledge)
Hungarian
4 entries- fürkész adj (eager to acquire knowledge)
- indiszkrét adj (too curious; overly interested; nosy)
- kandi adj (too curious; overly interested; nosy)
- kíváncsi adj (eager to acquire knowledge)
Italian
2 entries- curioso adj (too curious; overly interested; nosy)
- indiscreto adj (too curious; overly interested; nosy)
Jamaican Creole
1 entries- fass adj (too curious; overly interested; nosy)
Japanese
1 entries- 知りたがる adj (eager to acquire knowledge)
Latin
1 entries- curiosus adj (too curious; overly interested; nosy)
Latvian
2 entries- ziņkārs adj (eager to acquire knowledge)
- ziņkārīgs adj (eager to acquire knowledge)
Māori
2 entries- mahira adj (too curious; overly interested; nosy)
- māhirahira adj (too curious; overly interested; nosy)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- nysgjerrig adj (eager to acquire knowledge)
- nysgjerrig adj (too curious; overly interested; nosy)
- vitebegjærlig adj (eager to acquire knowledge)
Norwegian Nynorsk
3 entries- forviten adj (eager to acquire knowledge)
- nyfiken adj (eager to acquire knowledge)
- vitekjær adj (eager to acquire knowledge)
Persian
1 entries- کنجکاو adj (eager to acquire knowledge)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- nieschierich adj (too curious; overly interested; nosy)
Polish
3 entries- ciekawski adj (too curious; overly interested; nosy)
- dociekliwy adj (eager to acquire knowledge)
- wścibski adj (too curious; overly interested; nosy)
Portuguese
4 entries- enxerido adj (too curious; overly interested; nosy)
- inquisitivo adj (eager to acquire knowledge)
- inquisitivo adj (too curious; overly interested; nosy)
- intrometido adj (too curious; overly interested; nosy)
Russian
4 entries- любозна́тельный adj (eager to acquire knowledge)
- любопы́тный adj (eager to acquire knowledge)
- любопы́тный adj (too curious; overly interested; nosy)
- пытли́вый adj (eager to acquire knowledge)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- radoznao adj (eager to acquire knowledge)
- znatiželjan adj (eager to acquire knowledge)
- знатижељан adj (eager to acquire knowledge)
- радознао adj (eager to acquire knowledge)
Spanish
3 entries- curioso adj (too curious; overly interested; nosy)
- inquisitivo adj (eager to acquire knowledge)
- inquisitivo adj (too curious; overly interested; nosy)
Swedish
3 entries- frågvis adj (eager to acquire knowledge)
- nyfiken adj (too curious; overly interested; nosy)
- vetgirig adj (eager to acquire knowledge)
Thai
2 entries- ขี้เสือก adj (too curious; overly interested; nosy)
- สอดรู้สอดเห็น adj (too curious; overly interested; nosy)
Vietnamese
2 entries- dòm ngó adj (too curious; overly interested; nosy)
- tò mò adj (eager to acquire knowledge)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
She is inquisitive, but I like her none the worse.
Source: tatoeba (311060)
She's inquisitive by nature.
Source: tatoeba (558505)
My daughter is a communicative and inquisitive girl.
Source: tatoeba (1575667)
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