what is the meaning of the word "curiouser" that i ran into reading Alice in wonderland?

Answer 1

Lewis Carrol enjoyed playing around with the English language and wasn't above inventing words that weren't really words but still seem to have meaning. Consider his poem Jabberwocky, also found in Alice in Wonderland:

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

"And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
He chortled in his joy.

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

Curiouser and curiouser don't you think? :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabberwocky

I believe "curiouser: means . . wonderous strange.

Answer 2

It's a made-up word meaning "stranger," not a person, but an event. For example: "The questions on Yahoo Answers are getting curiouser and curiouser lately."

Answer 3

I don't think it's a real word, I think it just means more and more curious. It is used to indicate Alice's being young and naive and curious.

Answer 4

Not a real word but she meant it was more curious than before.

Answer 5

more curious xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Answer 6

weirder. stranger. more not normal.