calling into question

1. 1.

   a challenge to defend what someone has said

   Synonymsdemand for explanation

   Broaderchallenge

Questions about calling into question

What does calling into question mean?

calling into question means "a challenge to defend what someone has said".

What is another word for calling into question?

Close synonyms include demand for explanation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is calling into question a common word?

calling into question is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.