Nouns (1)
inquiring
n. a request for information
Verbs (0)
Adverbs (0)
Adjectives (7)
quizzical
adj. perplexed (as if being expected to know something that you do not know); "he had a quizzical expression"
inquisitive, speculative, wondering
adj. showing curiosity; "if someone saw a man climbing a light post they might get inquisitive"; "raised a speculative eyebrow"
skeptical, sceptical, doubting
adj. marked by or given to doubt; "a skeptical attitude"; "a skeptical listener"
Fuzzynyms (12)
inquisitive
adj. inquiring or appearing to inquire; "an inquiring look"; "the police are proverbially inquisitive"
meddling, busy, interfering, meddlesome, officious, busybodied
adj. intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner; "an interfering old woman"; "bustling about self-importantly making an officious nuisance of himself"; "busy about other people's business"
incredulous
adj. not disposed or willing to believe; unbelieving
disbelieving, skeptical, sceptical, unbelieving
adj. denying or questioning the tenets of especially a religion; "a skeptical approach to the nature of miracles"
Synonyms (37)
amazed, dumbfounded, dumfounded
adj. as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise; "a circle of policement stood dumbfounded by her denial of having seen the accident"; "the flabbergasted aldermen were speechless"; "was thunderstruck by the news of his promotion"
nonplused, nonplussed, puzzled, at a loss
adj. filled with bewilderment; "at a loss to understand those remarks"; "puzzled that she left without saying goodbye"
at sea, confused, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, mazed, mixed-up
adj. perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment; "obviously bemused by his questions"; "bewildered and confused"; "a cloudy and confounded philosopher"; "just a mixed-up kid"; "she felt lost on the first day of school"
metagrobolized, metagrabolized, mystified
adj. totally perplexed and mixed up; "all this duncical nonsense has my brains metagrobolized"- Wall Street Journal
stuck
adj. baffled; "this problem has me completely stuck"
prying, inquisitorial, nosy, nosey, snoopy
adj. offensively curious or inquisitive; "curious about the neighbor's doings"; "he flipped through my letters in his nosy way"; "prying eyes"; "the snoopy neighbor watched us all day"
overcurious
adj. showing excessive curiosity
misanthropic, misanthropical, cynical
adj. believing the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others
jealous, green-eyed, overjealous
adj. suspicious or unduly suspicious or fearful of being displaced by a rival; "a jealous lover"
suspicious, leery, mistrustful, untrusting
adj. openly distrustful and unwilling to confide
misogynic
adj. (used of men) having deep-seated distrust of women
oversuspicious
adj. unduly suspicious
Antonyms (0)
questioning
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