Questioning

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Question \Ques"tion\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Questioned}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Questioning}.] [Cf. F. questionner. See {Question},
     n.]
     1. To ask questions; to inquire.
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              He that questioneth much shall learn much. --Bacon.
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     2. To argue; to converse; to dispute. [Obs.]
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              I pray you, think you question with the Jew. --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  questioning
       adj 1: perplexed (as if being expected to know something that you
              do not know); "he had a quizzical expression" [syn: {quizzical}]
       2: marked by or given to doubt; "a skeptical attitude"; "a
          skeptical listener" [syn: {doubting}, {skeptical}, {sceptical}]
       3: showing curiosity; "if someone saw a man climbing a light
          post they might get inquisitive"; "raised a speculative
          eyebrow" [syn: {inquisitive}, {speculative}, {wondering(a)}]
       n : a request for information [syn: {inquiring}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  69 Moby Thesaurus words for "questioning":
     Pyrrhonic, Socratic method, agnostic, answering, asking,
     bringing into question, catechetical method, catechistic,
     catechization, catechizing, challenge, communicating,
     communicational, communional, conversational, curious,
     disbelieving, dispute, distrustful, doubtful, doubting, dubious,
     examination, from Missouri, in doubt, inquiring, inquisitional,
     inquisitorial, interacting, interactional, interactive,
     intercommunicational, intercommunicative, intercommunional,
     interpellation, interresponsive, interrogation, interrogational,
     interrogative, interrogatory, investigative, leery, linguistic,
     mistrustful, mistrusting, oral, probing, pumping, query, querying,
     question, quiz, quizzical, quizzing, responsive, scrupulous,
     seeking, shy, skeptical, speech, suspecting, suspicious,
     telepathic, transmissional, unbelieving, uncertain, untrusting,
     verbal, wary