questioning
Meanings
Plural: questionings
Noun
- a request for information
- The action of asking questions; a survey; an inquiry.
- The act of challenging, wondering, and doubting.
- Interrogation.
Verb
- challenge the accuracy, probity, or propriety of
- pose a series of questions to
- pose a question
- conduct an interview in television, newspaper, and radio reporting
- place in doubt or express doubtful speculation
- present participle and gerund of question
Adjective Satellite
- perplexed (as if being expected to know something that you do not know)
- marked by or given to doubt
- showing curiosity
Adj
- Characterized by questions, inquisitiveness, doubt, or wonder; quizzical.
- Unsure of one's sexual orientation or gender identity.
Origin / Etymology
From question + -ing (noun via Middle English questionyng).
Synonyms
call into question, doubting, inquiring, inquisitive, interrogate, interview, oppugn, query, question, quizzical, sceptical, skeptical, speculative, wonder, wondering
Scrabble Score: 21
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