questioning

1. 1.

   a request for information

   Synonymsinquiring

   Broaderrequest

   Narrowerchallengequestioninterrogation

Other forms of questioning

plural

questionings·

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 questioning

What does questioning mean?

questioning means "perplexed (as if being expected to know something that you do not know)". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in questioning?

questioning has 3 syllables: ques-tio-ning. The stress falls on "ques". In IPA it is /ˈkwɛstʃənɪŋ/.

What is another word for questioning?

Close synonyms include quizzical, doubting, skeptical, sceptical, inquisitive. 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 questioning a common word?

questioning is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with questioning?

1 word rhymes with questioning. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.