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    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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    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48


    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]

    WordNet (r) 2.0


    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

    Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0




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