interrogative

1. 1.

   a sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply

   “he asked a direct question”

   “he had trouble phrasing his interrogations”

   Synonymsquestioninterrogationinterrogative sentence

   Broadersentence

   Narrowercross-questionleading questionyes-no question
2. 2.

   some linguists consider interrogative sentences to constitute a mood

   Synonymsinterrogative mood

   Broadermood

1. 1.

   relating to verbs in the so-called interrogative mood

   “not all questions have an interrogative construction”

   grammar

2. 2.

   relating to the use of or having the nature of an interrogation

   Synonymsinterrogatory

   Antonymsdeclarative

Other forms of interrogative

plural

interrogatives·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about interrogative

What does interrogative mean?

interrogative means "a sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in interrogative?

interrogative has 5 syllables: in-ter-ro-ga-tive. The stress falls on "ro".

What is another word for interrogative?

Close synonyms include question, interrogation, interrogative sentence, interrogative mood, interrogatory. 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.

What is the opposite of interrogative?

The recorded antonyms are declarative.

Is interrogative a common word?

interrogative 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.