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inquiry - 20 thesaurus results
Main Entry: inquiry
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: asking; looking into
Synonyms: analysis, audit, check, disquisition, examination, exploration, fishing expedition, hearing, inquest, inquisition, inspection, interrogation, investigation, poll, probe, pursuit, query, quest, question, questioning, request, research, scrutiny, search, study, survey, third degree, trial balloon*, Q and A, catechizing, cross-examination, delving, grilling, interrogatory, legwork, probing, quizzing
Notes: a query is a single question; an inquiry (or enquiry) may be a single question or extensive investigation (series of questions)
Antonyms: answer, reply
Main Entry: demand
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: question, request
Synonyms: appeal, application, bid, bidding, call, call for, charge, claim, clamor, command, entreaty, imposition, inquiry, insistence, interest, interrogation, lien, necessity, need, occasion, order, petition, plea, prayer, pursuit, requirement, requisition, rush, sale, search, stipulation, suit, supplication, trade, ultimatum, use, vogue, want, arrogation, counterclaim, entreatment, exaction, impetration, imploration, importunity, solicitation
Antonyms: grant, offer, reply
Main Entry: enquiry
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: inquest
Synonyms: analysis, examination, exploration, inquiry, inquisition, inspection, interrogation, investigation, probe, query, questioning, research, study
Main Entry: exploration
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: investigation; survey
Synonyms: analysis, examination, expedition, inquiry, inspection, probe, reconnaissance, research, scrutiny, search, study, tour, travel, trip
Main Entry: hunt
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: search, chase
Synonyms: exploration, following, game, hunting, inquest, inquiry, inquisition, interrogation, investigation, meddling, probe, prosecution, prying, pursuing, pursuit, quest, race, raid, reconnaissance, research, rummage, scrutiny, seeking, sporting, study, trailing, coursing, field sport, frisking, hounding, look-see, pursuance, sifting, snooping, steeplechase, tracing
Main Entry: inquest
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: investigation
Synonyms: examination, hearing, inquiry, inquisition, probe, quest, research, trial, delving, probing
Antonyms: conclusion, findings
Main Entry: inspection
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: examination, check
Synonyms: analysis, frisk, inquest, inquiry, inquisition, inventory, investigation, once-over*, pageant, parade, probe, read, research, review, scan, scrutiny, search, supervision, surveillance, survey, view, checkup, look-over, maneuvers, perlustration, superintendence
Antonyms: ignorance, neglect
Main Entry: investigation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: thorough check
Synonyms: analysis, case, examination, exploration, hearing, hustle, inquest, inquiry, inquisition, inspection, observation, observing, pike, probe, quest, quiz, research, review, scrutiny, search, study, survey, delving, fact-finding, gander, legwork, probing, sounding, surveying
Main Entry: overview
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: survey
Synonyms: analysis, audit, critique, examination, inquiry, inspection, outline, précis, review, scrutiny, sketch, study, syllabus, synopsis, thumbnail, view, aperçu, capsulization, pandect
Main Entry: probe
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: investigation
Synonyms: detection, examination, exploration, fishing expedition, inquest, inquiry, inquisition, quest, research, scrutiny, study, third degree, delving, legwork, probing
Main Entry: query
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: demand for answers
Synonyms: concern, doubt, dubiety, inquiry, interrogation, mistrust, objection, problem, question, questioning, reservation, skepticism, suspicion, uncertainty, interrogatory
Antonyms: answer, reply
Main Entry: quest
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: search, exploration
Synonyms: adventure, chase, crusade, enterprise, examination, expedition, hunt, inquest, inquiry, inquisition, investigation, journey, mission, prey, probe, pursuit, quarry, research, seeking, voyage, delving, pilgrimmage, probing, pursual
Main Entry: request
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: question or petition
Synonyms: appeal, application, asking, begging, call, commercial, demand, desire, entreaty, inquiry, invitation, offer, prayer, recourse, requisition, suit, supplication, solicitation
Antonyms: answer, reply
Main Entry: research
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: examination, study
Synonyms: analysis, exploration, fishing expedition, groundwork, inquest, inquiry, inquisition, investigation, probe, quest, scrutiny, R and D, delving, experimentation, fact-finding, legwork, probing
Antonyms: ignorance
Main Entry: scrutiny
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: close examination
Synonyms: analysis, audit, eagle eye*, exploration, inquiry, inspection, investigation, perusal, review, scan, search, study, surveillance, survey, tab*, view, close-up, long hard look, perlustration, sifting, the eye
Main Entry: search
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: seeking to find something
Synonyms: chase, examination, exploration, fishing expedition, hunt, inquest, inquiry, inspection, investigation, pursuing, pursuit, quest, research, rummage, scrutiny, shakedown*, wild-goose chase*, witch hunt*, frisking, going-over, legwork, perquisition, pursual, pursuance
Antonyms: finding
Main Entry: study
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: learning, analysis
Synonyms: abstraction, application, attention, class, cogitation, comparison, concentration, consideration, contemplation, course, debate, deliberation, examination, exercise, inquiry, inspection, investigation, lesson, meditation, muse, musing, questioning, reading, reasoning, reflection, research, reverie, review, scrutiny, subject, survey, thought, trance, weighing, academic work, analyzing, cramming, memorizing, pondering, rumination, schoolwork
Main Entry: survey
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: scrutiny, examination
Synonyms: analysis, audit, check, compendium, critique, digest, inquiry, inspection, outline, overview, perusal, précis, review, sample, scan, sketch, study, syllabus, view, aperçu, pandect, perlustration
Antonyms: ignorance, neglect, negligence
Main Entry: inquisition
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: official inquiry
Synonyms: inquiry, interrogation, investigation, third degree, trial, cross-examination
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