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Inquisitive   /ɪnkwˈɪzɪtɪv/   Listen
Inquisitive

adjective
1.
Showing curiosity.  Synonyms: questioning, speculative, wondering.  "Raised a speculative eyebrow"
2.
Inquiring or appearing to inquire.  "The police are proverbially inquisitive"



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"Inquisitive" Quotes from Famous Books



... two others, inquisitive and gaping, joined the spokeswoman, who, as the princess ...
— The Title Market • Emily Post

... gifted with the heavenly knowledge of faith [says the Catechism of the Council of Trent] is free from an inquisitive curiosity; for when God commands us to believe, he does not propose to have us search into his divine judgments, nor to inquire their reasons and causes, but demands an immutable faith. . . . Faith, therefore, excludes not only all ...
— The Age of the Reformation • Preserved Smith

... tripped eagerly, yet wearily, to his accustomed stall, and a swarthy Mexican unloosed at once the cincha and removed the horsehair bridle. Thus Sancho and the engineer were left by themselves, though inquisitive ranch folk sauntered to the gateway and peered after them into the corral. Over at the little clump of willows Blake's men were throwing their carbines across their shoulders and dismounting as they reached the old familiar spot, ...
— A Wounded Name • Charles King

... acquaintance with the affairs of the mountain, and of the Druses, which his residence of upwards of twelve years, and a sound understanding, have enabled him to acquire, renders his conversation very instructive to the inquisitive traveller. ...
— Travels in Syria and the Holy Land • John Burckhardt

... that he had frequently heard you mention the cow-pox as a disease endemial to Gloucestershire, and that if a person were ever affected by it, you supposed him afterwards secure from the smallpox. This excited my curiosity, and when I visited Gloucestershire I was very inquisitive concerning the subject, and from the information I have since received, both from your publication and from conversation with medical men of the greatest accuracy in their observations, I am fully convinced that what the men supposed to be cow-pox was ...
— The Harvard Classics Volume 38 - Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) • Various


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