Definitions for questioning

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questioning ques·tion·ing

Spelling: [kwes-chuh-ning]

IPA: /ˈkwɛs tʃə nɪŋ/

Questioning is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 21 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 25 points.

You can make 468 anagrams from letters in questioning (egiinnoqstu).

Definitions for questioning

adjective

1. indicating or implying a question:
2. characterized by or indicating intellectual curiosity; inquiring:

noun

1. an inquiry or interrogation.
2. a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
3. a problem for discussion or under discussion; a matter for investigation.
4. a matter of some uncertainty or difficulty; problem (usually followed by of):
5. a subject of dispute or controversy.
6. a proposal to be debated or voted on, as in a meeting or a deliberative assembly.
7. the procedure of putting a proposal to vote.
8. Politics. a problem of public policy submitted to the voters for an expression of opinion.
9. Law. a controversy that is submitted to a judicial tribunal or administrative agency for decision. the interrogation by which information is secured. Obsolete. judicial examination or trial.
10. the act of asking or inquiring; interrogation; query.
11. inquiry into or discussion of some problem or doubtful matter.

verb (used with object)

1. to ask (someone) a question; ask questions of; interrogate.
2. to ask or inquire.
3. to make a question of; doubt:
4. to challenge or dispute:

verb (used without object)

1. to ask a question or questions.

Idioms

1. beg the question. beg1 (def 9).
2. beyond question, beyond dispute; without doubt: Also, beyond all question.
3. call in / into question, to dispute; challenge. to cast doubt upon; question:
4. in question, under consideration. in dispute.
5. out of the question, not to be considered; unthinkable; impossible:

Origin of questioning

First recorded in 1795-1805; question + -ing², -ing¹

Examples for questioning

They would be interesting, beyond shadow of questioning, horribly interesting.

There was no reply; and, after a little interval, the lawyer resumed his questioning.

Yet, his duty required that he should continue his questioning.

The line of questioning is a regular ritual conducted between Sen. Dianne Feinstein and the press corps.

There was something about her eyes not unlike the dog's expression, submissive, but questioning.

There was no questioning of such a known man as Bill Dozier.

But, growing up, he had never ascribed to any kind of religion, always doubting and questioning it.

The spirit of the novel is one of doubt and questioning; its knowledge is provisional and its perspectives multiple.

Amir moves from a swaggering hotshot who seems to know it all to a broken man now questioning everything.

After just a “few minutes” of questioning at Cobalt, he was subject to enhanced interrogation techniques.