Usually means: Eager to know or learn.
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  1. inquisitive: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. inquisitive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. inquisitive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. inquisitive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. inquisitive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Inquisitive, inquisitive: Wordnik
  7. inquisitive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. inquisitive: Wiktionary
  9. inquisitive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. inquisitive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. inquisitive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Inquisitive, inquisitive: Dictionary.com
  13. inquisitive: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. inquisitive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Inquisitive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. inquisitive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. inquisitive: Rhymezone
  18. Inquisitive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. inquisitive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. inquisitive: Free Dictionary
  21. inquisitive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. inquisitive: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. inquisitive: Legal dictionary

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  1. Inquisitive: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Eager to acquire knowledge.
▸ adjective:  Too curious; overly interested; nosy.

Similar:
curious, inquiring, questioning, speculative, wondering, exquisitive, superinquisitive, supercurious, overinquisitive, eager, more...

Opposite:
uninquisitive, uninterested, apathetic

Phrases:
overly inquisitive, opposite of inquisitive, more rudely inquisitive, inquisitive people, is overly inquisitive, more...

Adjectives:
least, latter, dear, old, more

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    teal,     turquoise,     chartreuse,     cerulean,     periwinkle, more...


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Similar:
curious, inquiring, questioning, speculative, wondering, exquisitive, superinquisitive, supercurious, overinquisitive, eager, more...

Opposite:
uninquisitive, uninterested, apathetic

Phrases:
overly inquisitive, opposite of inquisitive, more rudely inquisitive, inquisitive people, is overly inquisitive, inquisitive look, curiously inquisitive, is it odd to be so inquisitive, more inquisitive, more...

Adjectives:
least, latter, dear, old, more

Colors:
    teal,     turquoise,     chartreuse,     cerulean,     periwinkle, more...



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