questioning

questioning
Synonyms and related words:
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. . 1996.

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  • questioning — un·questioning; questioning; …   English syllables

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