Question

Noun

 * 1) A sentence, phrase or word which asks for information, reply or response; an interrogative.
 * What is your question?
 * 1) A subject or topic for consideration or investigation.
 * The question of seniority will be discussed at the meeting.
 * 1) An unknown.
 * There was a question of which material to use.
 * 1) A doubt or challenge about the truth or accuracy of a matter.
 * His claim to the property has come under question.
 * 1) A proposal to a meeting as a topic for deliberation.
 * I move that the question be put to a vote.

Synonyms

 * inquiry, enquiry, query, subject, topic, problem, issue, consideration, interrogation, doubt, motion, proposition, proposal

Derived terms

 * a question of
 * begging the question
 * beyond question
 * bonus question
 * call into question
 * chicken-or-egg question
 * closed-ended question
 * cross-question
 * essay question
 * federal question
 * in question
 * indirect question
 * frequently asked questions/FAQ
 * leading question
 * loaded question
 * multiple-choice question
 * no questions asked
 * open question
 * open-ended question


 * out of the question
 * pop the question
 * previous question
 * questionable
 * questionist
 * questionless
 * questionnaire
 * question mark
 * question-master
 * question sheet
 * question time
 * reverse question
 * rhetorical question
 * scaled question
 * tag question
 * toss-up question
 * West Lothian question
 * yes-no question

Related terms

 * query
 * quest

Verb

 * 1) To ask questions of; interrogate; enquire; ask for information.
 * 2) To raise doubts about; have doubts about.

Derived terms

 * questioner

Adjectives for Question
compound; innocent; prying; rhetorical; debatable; embarrassing; unvoiced; historic; ultimate; comprehensive; unthinkable; controversial; probing; tentative; point-blank; covert; perfidious; insidious; awkward; searching; identification; artless; incisive; unconscious; sad; vermicular; brute; philosophical; theological; touching; vexed; burning; tabooed; academic; angry; contemptuous; essential; clamorous; suspicious; physical; irrational; prompt; diverse; fundamental; trying; improper; gloomy; immodest; muttered;  delicate;  difficult; mooted; incessant; pertinent; hideous; intelligent; abstract; stale; celebrated; troublesome; long-pending; dreadful; social; unsettled; idle; constant; bald; agonized; piercing; present; impertinent; deciding; prominent; insolent; disputed; pressing; affable; ambiguous; germane; stern; unanswerable; dormant; sensible sorrowful; inconvenient; serious; brusque vital; disencumbered; horrible; frenzied large; unsuitable; transit; profound; intricate; irritating; imminent; teasing; explosive; argumentative; innumerable (pi); reasonable; concrete; cheerless; ill-bred; cogent; momentous; political; financial; humanitarian; national;  absurd;  relevant;  foregoing; technical; barbed; perennial; multiplying; combustive; tantalizing; beggarly; tremendous; peculiar; perfect; natural; broader; ironical; much-discussed; steep; pending; motherly; untiring; numberless (pi); pregnant; eternal; banal; lustier; dynastic; constitutional; abstruse; unsettled; ever-burning; confidential; ethical; austere; vexatious; economic; insolvable; rude; insatiate; complex; perplexing; basic; uneasy; frivolous; speculative; customary; blunt; trick; similar; exhaustive; civil; religious.

Verbs for Question
adjudicate—; bar—; bear upon—; bombard with—s; brood over—; complicate—; com¬prehend—; confront with—; constitute—; cope with—; darken—; debate—; deluge with—s; dispute—; elucidate—; evade—; face—; fire—at; fling—at; focus on—; formulate—; frame—; go to the heart of—; grapple with—; hammer with—s; hurl— at open to—; parry—; ply with—s; ponder — propound—; raise—; revive—; shelve — shy away from—; solve—; split on—; submit—to;  throw light upon—;   touch upon—; voice—; wrestle with—; —agitates; —arises; —elicits; —embarrasses; —hangs fire; —involves; —looms; —obtrudes upon; —plagues; —pops up; —poses itself; —relates to; —revolves itself; —rings out; — simmers; —vexes.

Adverbs for Question
importunately;  cryptically;   audaciously; curiously; vaguely; incredulously; blankly; ruefully; sarcastically; sophistically; prefatorily; minutely; impudently; reluctantly; tactfully; innocently; clamorously; delicately; improperly; sternly; brusquely; momentously; technically; ironically; banally; abstrusely; confidentially; speculatively; bluntly ; exhaustively.

Thesaurus
Chinese puzzle, Parthian shot, Pyrrhonism, absurd, address, affirmation, agonize over, allegation, answer, apostrophe, apprehension, approach, ask, ask a question, ask about, ask questions, assertion, assuredly, at issue, averment, awake a doubt, baffling problem, basis, be at sea, be curious, be diffident, be doubtful, be dubious, be skeptical, be uncertain, beat about, bill, blind bargain, bone of contention, borderline case, brain twister, bring into question, burden, burn with curiosity, calendar, call in question, case, catechism, catechize, certainly, challenge, chance, chapter, clause, comment, communicate with, companion bills amendment, concern, confusion, contact, contest, contingency, correspond, crack, cross-interrogatory, cross-question, crossword puzzle, crux, debatable, debating point, declaration, definitely, demand, demurral, demurrer, dictum, difficulty, diffidence, dig around for, dig up, dispute, distrust, distrustfulness, double contingency, doubt, doubtful, doubtfulness, doubtlessly, dragnet clause, dubiety, dubiousness, enacting clause, enigma, enigmatic question, enquiry, escalator clause, essence, establish connection, examine, exclamation, expression, feel unsure, feeler, focus of attention, focus of interest, gamble, gape, gawk, get to, gist, greet with skepticism, greeting, grill, grope, guess, half believe, half-belief, harbor suspicions, have reservations, head, heading, hold-up bill, impossible, in doubt, in question, inconceivable, indubitably, inquire, inquire of, inquiry, insupportable, interjection, interpellate, interrogate, interrogation, interrogative, interrogatory, interview, issue, jigsaw puzzle, joker, knot, knotty point, leader, leading question, leeriness, living issue, main point, maintain connection, make advances, make contact with, make inquiry, make overtures, make up to, matter, matter in hand, meat, mention, mind-boggler, misdoubt, misgive, misgiving, mistrust, mistrustfulness, moot point, motif, motion, motive, mystery, nose around for, nose out, note, nut, nut to crack, objection, observation, omnibus bill, open question, peer, perplexed question, perplexity, phrase, piece of guesswork, point, point at issue, point in question, poser, position, preposterous, privileged question, problem, pronouncement, propose a question, proposition, propound a question, protest, proviso, pump, put queries, puzzle, puzzle over, puzzlement, puzzler, query, question, question at issue, question mark, questionable, questioning, quiz, quodlibet, raise, raise a question, reach, reflection, relate to, remark, remonstrance, remonstration, reply to, require an answer, respond to, rider, ridiculous, rubber, rubberneck, rubric, saving clause, say, saying, scruple, scrupulousness, seek, self-doubt, sentence, shadow of doubt, sight-unseen transaction, sixty-four dollar question, skepticalness, skepticism, smell a rat, sound out, stare, statement, sticker, stumper, subject, subject matter, subject of thought, subjoinder, substance, suspect, suspicion, suspiciousness, test, text, theme, thought, thrash about, throw doubt upon, topic, toss-up, total skepticism, touch and go, tough proposition, treat with reserve, trial balloon, uncertainty, undecided issue, under consideration, undoubtedly, unthinkable, utterance, vexed question, wager, want to know, wariness, why, wonder, wonder about, wonder whether, word, worm out of

Alternative forms

 * quæstion

Etymology
From question:, from  questiun:, from  question:, from  quaestionem:, accusative of quaestio: from quaerere:. Displaced native frain: (from  frægn:); compare  frainen:,  afrainen:.

Noun

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian:
 * Bashkir:
 * Bulgarian:, ,  запитване
 * Catalan:
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chechen:
 * Chinese: 問題, 问题 (wèntí)
 * Chuvash:
 * Crimean Tatar:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: kysymys, kysymyslause
 * French:
 * Georgian: კითხვა, საკითხი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: שאלה (she'ela)
 * Hungarian:
 * Interlingua: question
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 質問 (しつもん, shitsumon)
 * Kalmyk:
 * Karachay-Balkar:
 * Karakalpak: ,
 * Kazakh: сұрақ, сұрау
 * Khakas: ,
 * Korean: 질문 (jilmun)


 * Koryak:
 * Kumyk: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Latin:
 * Macedonian: прашање
 * Mongolian: асуудал
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: dumonda
 * Russia Buryat:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Shor:
 * Slovene:
 * Southern Altai:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:, spörsmål, spörjning
 * Tajik: пурсиш, савол
 * Tamil: கேள்வி (kELvi)
 * Taos: cìakǫ’óna
 * Tatar: soraw
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: sorag, sowal
 * Tuvan:
 * Uzbek: soʻroq, savol
 * Yakut:


 * Arabic: مسألة
 * Armenian:
 * Catalan:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: teema, keskusteluaihe
 * French:
 * Georgian: საკითხი
 * German:
 * Greek:


 * Irish:
 * Macedonian: прашање
 * Persian: مسئله
 * Polish: kwestia
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, , ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:


 * Catalan:
 * Crimean Tatar:
 * Dutch:
 * Greek: ,


 * Portuguese:, incógnita
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swahili:
 * Turkish:, soru işareti


 * Armenian:
 * Catalan:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,


 * Macedonian: сомнеж,,  сомневање
 * Mandarin: 疑問，质询
 * Portuguese:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: tvivel


 * Catalan:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: motie
 * French:
 * German: ,


 * Greek:
 * Macedonian: прашање
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, ,  ,


 * : spurning
 * : întrebare
 * : ప్రశ్న (praSna)

Verb

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: ,
 * German:, ,
 * Hungarian:, ,  kérdőre von,
 * Macedonian: испрашува, прашува
 * Polish:


 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: расспрашивать (rassprášivat'), расспросить (rassprosít') , допрашивать (doprášivat') , допросить (doprosít')
 * Spanish:, , ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:


 * Czech:
 * Dutch: in vraag stellen
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: kyseenalaistaa, asettaa kyseenalaiseksi
 * French: mettre en doute, de
 * German: ,
 * Macedonian: става под прашање, оспорува


 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ставить под вопрос (stávit' pod vopros)
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:

Noun

 * a
 * 1) a matter or issue; a problem

Etymology
From, borrowed from quaestio, quaestionem.

Anagrams

 * quêtions, toniques