Exact Match:
- inquisitorial
- having the authority to conduct official investigations; "the inquisitorial power of the Senate"
- marked by inquisitive interest; especially suggestive of an ecclesiastical inquisitor; "the press was inquisitorial to the point of antagonism"; "a practical police force with true inquisitorial talents"- Waldo Frank
- especially indicating a form of prosecution in which proceedings are secret and the accused is questioned by a prosecutor who acts also as the judge
Synonyms:
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Related Words:
- busy,
- busybody,
- curious,
- delving,
- digging,
- fishing,
- forward,
- impertinent,
- in search of,
- inquisitive,
- inquisitorial,
- loaded for bear,
- looking for,
- meddlesome,
- meddling,
- nosy,
- obtrusive,
- officious,
- out for,
- out for bear,
- poking,
- presumptuous,
- probing,
- pushing,
- pushy,
- searching,
- self-appointed,
- snooping,
- snoopy
- nosy
collapse - 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" related words >
- busy,
- busybody,
- curious,
- delving,
- digging,
- eavesdropping,
- fishing,
- forward,
- impertinent,
- in search of,
- inquisitive,
- inquisitorial,
- loaded for bear,
- looking for,
- meddlesome,
- meddling,
- officious,
- out for,
- out for bear,
- poking,
- presumptuous,
- probing,
- prying,
- pushing,
- pushy,
- searching,
- self-appointed,
- snooping,
- snoopy,
- spying
- answering,
- catechistic,
- communicating,
- communicational,
- communional,
- conversational,
- curious,
- inquiring,
- inquisitional,
- inquisitorial,
- interacting,
- interactional,
- interactive,
- intercommunicational,
- intercommunicative,
- intercommunional,
- interresponsive,
- interrogation,
- interrogational,
- interrogative,
- linguistic,
- oral,
- query,
- querying,
- question,
- questioning,
- quizzical,
- quizzing,
- responsive,
- speech,
- telepathic,
- transmissional,
- verbal
- inquisitive
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- showing curiosity; "if someone saw a man climbing a light post they might get inquisitive"; "raised a speculative eyebrow"
- inquiring or appearing to inquire; "an inquiring look"; "the police are proverbially inquisitive" related words >
- agape,
- agog,
- all agog,
- analytical,
- burning with curiosity,
- busy,
- busybody,
- consumed with curiosity,
- curious,
- exploring,
- forward,
- ghoulish,
- gossipy,
- impertinent,
- inquiring,
- inquisitorial,
- interested,
- intrusive,
- investigative,
- itchy,
- meddlesome,
- meddling,
- morbid,
- morbidly curious,
- nosy,
- officious,
- open-eyed,
- openmouthed,
- overcurious,
- presumptuous,
- probing,
- prurient,
- prying,
- pushing,
- pushy,
- questioning,
- quizzical,
- scopophiliac,
- searching,
- self-appointed,
- snooping,
- snoopy,
- supercurious,
- voyeuristic
- inquiring
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- given to inquiry; "an inquiring mind" related words >
- Socratic method,
- agape,
- agog,
- all agog,
- analysis,
- asking,
- bringing into question,
- burning with curiosity,
- catechetical method,
- catechistic,
- catechization,
- catechizing,
- challenge,
- consumed with curiosity,
- curious,
- dispute,
- examination,
- ghoulish,
- gossipy,
- inquest,
- inquirendo,
- inquiring mind,
- inquiry,
- inquisition,
- inquisitional,
- inquisitive,
- inquisitorial,
- interested,
- interpellation,
- interrogation,
- interrogational,
- interrogative,
- interrogatory,
- investigative,
- itchy,
- morbid,
- morbidly curious,
- open-eyed,
- openmouthed,
- overcurious,
- probing,
- prurient,
- pumping,
- querying,
- questioning,
- quiz,
- quizzical,
- quizzing,
- scopophiliac,
- seeking,
- supercurious,
- voyeuristic
- questioning
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- a request for information
- perplexed (as if being expected to know something that you do not know); "he had a quizzical expression" related words >
- Pyrrhonic,
- Socratic method,
- agnostic,
- answering,
- asking,
- bringing into question,
- catechetical method,
- catechistic,
- catechization,
- catechizing,
- challenge,
- communicating,
- communicational,
- communional,
- conversational,
- curious,
- disbelieving,
- dispute,
- distrustful,
- doubtful,
- doubting,
- dubious,
- examination,
- from Missouri,
- in doubt,
- inquiring,
- inquisitional,
- inquisitorial,
- interacting,
- interactional,
- interactive,
- intercommunicational,
- intercommunicative,
- intercommunional,
- interpellation,
- interresponsive,
- interrogation,
- interrogational,
- interrogative,
- interrogatory,
- investigative,
- leery,
- linguistic,
- mistrustful,
- mistrusting,
- oral,
- probing,
- pumping,
- query,
- querying,
- question,
- quiz,
- quizzical,
- quizzing,
- responsive,
- scrupulous,
- seeking,
- shy,
- skeptical,
- speech,
- suspecting,
- suspicious,
- telepathic,
- transmissional,
- unbelieving,
- uncertain,
- untrusting,
- verbal,
- wary
- absurd,
- agape,
- agog,
- all agog,
- amusing,
- bantering,
- bizarre,
- booing,
- burning with curiosity,
- catcalling,
- catechistic,
- chaffing,
- consumed with curiosity,
- curious,
- derisive,
- derisory,
- disbelieving,
- droll,
- eccentric,
- fleering,
- flippant,
- fooling,
- funny,
- ghoulish,
- gossipy,
- grinning,
- hilarious,
- hissing,
- hooting,
- humorous,
- incongruous,
- inquiring,
- inquisitional,
- inquisitive,
- inquisitorial,
- interested,
- interrogational,
- interrogative,
- interrogatory,
- itchy,
- jeering,
- jollying,
- joshing,
- kidding,
- laughable,
- leering,
- ludicrous,
- mocking,
- morbid,
- morbidly curious,
- odd,
- open-eyed,
- openmouthed,
- overcurious,
- panning,
- priceless,
- probing,
- prurient,
- puzzled,
- quaint,
- queer,
- querying,
- questioning,
- quizzing,
- ragging,
- railing,
- rallying,
- razzing,
- rich,
- ridiculing,
- ridiculous,
- risible,
- roasting,
- scoffing,
- scopophiliac,
- screaming,
- searching,
- skeptical,
- smart,
- smart-alecky,
- smart-ass,
- smirking,
- sneering,
- snickering,
- sniggering,
- snorting,
- supercurious,
- taunting,
- teasing,
- twitting,
- unbelieving,
- voyeuristic,
- whimsical,
- witty
- curious
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- eager to investigate and learn or learn more (sometimes about others' concerns); "a curious child is a teacher's delight"; "a trap door that made me curious"; "curious investigators"; "traffic was slowed by curious rubberneckers"; "curious about the neighbor's doings"
- beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; "a curious hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang"; "they have some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd name"; "the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves"; "something definitely queer about this town"; "what a rum fellow"; "singular behavior"
- having curiosity aroused; eagerly interested in learning more; "a trap door that made me curious" related words >
- aberrant,
- abnormal,
- absurd,
- agape,
- agog,
- all agog,
- analytical,
- attentive,
- attracted,
- barmy,
- bizarre,
- burning with curiosity,
- careful,
- catechistic,
- cathectic,
- cautious,
- circumspect,
- concerned,
- considerate,
- consumed with curiosity,
- deviant,
- deviate,
- eccentric,
- enthusiastic,
- erratic,
- examining,
- excited,
- exotic,
- extraordinary,
- fascinated,
- freaked out,
- freakish,
- freaky,
- funny,
- ghoulish,
- gossipy,
- grotesque,
- heedful,
- impertinent,
- inquiring,
- inquisitional,
- inquisitive,
- inquisitorial,
- interested,
- interfering,
- intermeddling,
- interrogational,
- interrogative,
- interrogatory,
- intrusive,
- investigative,
- irregular,
- itchy,
- keen on,
- kinky,
- kooky,
- loving,
- meddlesome,
- meddling,
- mindful,
- morbid,
- morbidly curious,
- nosy,
- nuts,
- nutty,
- odd,
- oddball,
- off,
- off the wall,
- offbeat,
- open-eyed,
- openmouthed,
- out,
- outlandish,
- outrageous,
- outre,
- overcurious,
- passing strange,
- passionate,
- peculiar,
- piqued,
- pixilated,
- prurient,
- prying,
- quaint,
- queer,
- querying,
- questioning,
- quizzical,
- quizzing,
- regardful,
- scopophiliac,
- scrutinizing,
- searching,
- singular,
- snooping,
- snoopy,
- solicitous,
- strange,
- supercurious,
- tantalized,
- tender,
- thoughtful,
- tickled,
- titillated,
- turned-on,
- unconventional,
- unearthly,
- unusual,
- voyeuristic,
- weird,
- wondrous strange
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