Desirous of seeing or knowing; eager to learn; inquisitive. Often with condemnatory connotation: Desirous of knowing what one has no right to…

Often (now usually) in an unfavourable sense: Unduly or impertinently curious; prying.

That pries (in various senses of the verb); unduly, excessively, or objectionably curious, esp. in relation to secret, private, or personal matters…

That peers; that looks narrowly or closely at something. Also, of a thing: just appearing or visible.

Given to pry or search into something. Obsolete.

figurative. Prying, inquisitive, narrowly examining.

That peeks; peeping, prying.

In extended use: prying, prowling, inquisitive; rapacious; that hunts as a cat does.

Inclined to peer; given to peering or looking narrowly or closely; (hence) prying, inquisitive, suspicious.

Curious, inquisitive, prying. Formerly also: †sharp, acute, alert to one's own interest or advantage (obsolete).

Of the character of an inquisitor; like, or like that of, an inquisitor; offensively or impertinently inquiring, prying.

colloquial. Inquisitive, esp. objectionably or unnecessarily so; curious, prying. Also: cunning.

Interfering, inquisitive, nosy.

Given to scrutiny or investigation.

English regional (Lancashire). Inquisitive, meddlesome. rare.

Inquisitive, excessively curious or prying.

A person who pries into the affairs of others; a nosy or inquisitive person. Also in extended use with reference to an inquisitive animal.

Interfering, inquisitive, nosy. Cf. nebby, adj. 1.