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Questioning   /kwˈɛstʃənɪŋ/   Listen
Questioning

noun
1.
A request for information.  Synonym: inquiring.
adjective
1.
Perplexed (as if being expected to know something that you do not know).  Synonym: quizzical.
2.
Marked by or given to doubt.  Synonyms: doubting, sceptical, skeptical.  "A skeptical listener"
3.
Showing curiosity.  Synonyms: inquisitive, speculative, wondering.  "Raised a speculative eyebrow"



Question

verb
(past & past part. questioned; pres. part. questioning)
1.
Challenge the accuracy, probity, or propriety of.  Synonyms: call into question, oppugn.
2.
Pose a series of questions to.  Synonym: interrogate.  "We questioned the survivor about the details of the explosion"
3.
Pose a question.  Synonym: query.
4.
Conduct an interview in television, newspaper, and radio reporting.  Synonym: interview.
5.
Place in doubt or express doubtful speculation.  Synonym: wonder.  "She wondered whether it would snow tonight"



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"Questioning" Quotes from Famous Books



... so, and of at last setting straight the last threads of the tangled web she had woven. She felt that she would have told before about the essay if Netta had not been implicated, but her father had agreed that she could not in honour expose her schoolfellow. By skilful cross-questioning Miss Roscoe soon gathered ...
— The Youngest Girl in the Fifth - A School Story • Angela Brazil

... owl. Perhaps the last greeting from the woods which the wayfarer will get as he leaves the diminishing red glow of the falling embers behind him and fares on under the keen, cold twinkle of the stars will be the questioning "who-who-whoo?" of the one of the big species of these birds, a barred owl or a great horned owl. More likely in our neighborhood it will be the gentle, quavering call of the little screech owl, a voice of friendliness out of the silence, dear to every true lover of the ...
— Old Plymouth Trails • Winthrop Packard

... at her a moment, as if questioning both herself and the other, and finally handed the letter across with ...
— The Necromancers • Robert Hugh Benson

... pleasure's lewdest voice Hawked in the market-place, and through the streets. Her story done, Veera entreated me To set my face for Mesched with the dawn. "Not yet," I said, "not yet." And then I made Strange passes with my hands, and braced my will, To sway her will; then with a questioning glance She passed out to a calm Mesmeric sleep. So, well I knew that I had found the soul My purpose needed, and I ...
— Stories in Verse • Henry Abbey

... to the favors of the great or to the clamors of the many, and his unquestioned spotless integrity. During a portion of his lengthened judicial career Lord Mansfield held a seat in the Cabinet, but nobody thought of questioning the purity of his judgments on that account. Toward the close of his judicial life Lord George Gordon was tried for Inciting the rioters who set fire to Lord Mansfield's house and destroyed his property. Lord Mansfield ...
— International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, - No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 • Various


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