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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



... him. She was Spanish, without a doubt. He greeted her with studied courtesy and then sat down opposite her at the little table and ordered aperatifs. They conversed together in low, earnest tones. She seemed to be questioning him, while he gave rather hesitating replies. It seemed to me that he had come to Madrid in order to meet her. Therefore when after about half an hour they parted, I followed the lady. She took a cab and drove to the North Station, where she took a ticket for Segovia which ...
— The Stretton Street Affair • William Le Queux

... out his handkerchief and wiped his face, and as he put it back in his pocket he looked in her questioning eyes. ...
— Miss Gibbie Gault • Kate Langley Bosher

... sheaf of the voltaic arc. He also observed that the spark passed even when the poles were separated by a distance varying from 1/40 to 1/30 of an inch. This appears to have been subsequently forgotten, as we find later physicists questioning the possibility of the spark leaping over any interpolar distance. Mr. J. P. Gassiot, of Clapham, demonstrated the inaccuracy of this opinion by constructing a battery of 3,000 Leclanche cells, which gave a spark ...
— Scientific American Supplement No. 275 • Various

... her a questioning glance, and Bertha did not know what to say. She was annoyed, too, at the childish embarrassment, of which she could not rid herself in ...
— Bertha Garlan • Arthur Schnitzler

... offering me all his shop held. I was touched by the worthy man's kindness. At last I was told that a lady in a coach wanted to see me. I waited, but nobody came. In my impatience I called the turnkey, who told me that, after questioning the clerk of the prison, she had gone away again. From the description I was given I had no difficulty in identifying the ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt


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