| Main Entry: | inquiring |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wondering, curious |
Synonyms: |
Socratic, analytical, catechistic, doubtful, examining, fact-finding, heuristic, inquisitive, interested, interrogative, investigative, investigatory, nosy, outward-looking, probing, prying, questioning, quizzical, searching, speculative, studious |
Antonyms: |
disinterested, incurious, unskeptical |
| Main Entry: | investigation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | thorough check |
Synonyms: |
analysis, case, delving, examination, exploration, fact-finding, gander, hearing, hustle, inquest, inquiry, inquisition, inspection, legwork, observation, observing, pike, probe, probing, quest, quiz, research, review, scrutiny, search, sounding, study, survey, surveying |
| Main Entry: | research |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | examination, study |
Synonyms: |
R and D, analysis, delving, experimentation, exploration, fact-finding, fishing expedition, groundwork, inquest, inquiry, inquisition, investigation, legwork, probe, probing, quest, scrutiny |
Antonyms: |
ignorance |
| Main Entry: | searching |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | probing |
Synonyms: |
curious, experimental, exploratory, fact-finding, inquiring, inquisitive, penetrating, seeking, sharp, studious |
| Main Entry: | investigation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
agape, all-searching, analytic, burning with curiosity, catechetical, curious, disquisitionary, doubtful, erotetic, ichneutic, in course of inquiry, in dispute, in full cry, in hot pursuit, in issue, in pursuit, in quest of, in question, in search of, inexorable, inquiring, inquisitive, inquisitorial, interrogative, maieutic, moot, nonplussed, on the lookout for, on the scent, overcurious, peery, perquesting, proposed, prying, pursuing, pysmatic, pytacorian, quizzable, quizzacious, quizzatorial, quizzical, requisitive, requisitory, rogatory, undecided, under consideration, under discussion, under investigation, undetermined, untried, zetetic
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