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questioning, inquiring

n. a request for information

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questioning, quizzical

adj. perplexed (as if being expected to know something that you do not know); "he had a quizzical expression"

doubting, questioning, skeptical, sceptical

adj. marked by or given to doubt; "a skeptical attitude"; "a skeptical listener"

inquisitive, speculative, questioning, wondering(a)

adj. showing curiosity; "if someone saw a man climbing a light post they might get inquisitive"; "raised a speculative eyebrow"

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"

inquisitive

adj. inquiring or appearing to inquire; "an inquiring look"; "the police are proverbially inquisitive"

interfering, meddlesome, meddling, officious, busy, 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"

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"

at a loss(p), nonplused, nonplussed, puzzled

adj. filled with bewilderment; "at a loss to understand those remarks"; "puzzled that she left without saying goodbye"

baffled, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up, at sea

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, metagrobolised, metagrabolized, metagrabolised, 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"

cynical, misanthropic, misanthropical

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"

leery, mistrustful, suspicious, untrusting, wary

adj. openly distrustful and unwilling to confide

misogynic

adj. (used of men) having deep-seated distrust of women

oversuspicious

adj. unduly suspicious

nosy, nosey, prying, 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

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