Word Meanings - INQUISITIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Disposed to ask questions, especially in matters which do not concern the inquirer. A wise man is not inquisitive about things impertinent. Broome. 2. Given to examination, investigation, or research; searching; curious. A young, inquisitive,

Additional info about word: INQUISITIVE

1. Disposed to ask questions, especially in matters which do not concern the inquirer. A wise man is not inquisitive about things impertinent. Broome. 2. Given to examination, investigation, or research; searching; curious. A young, inquisitive, and sprightly genius. I. Watts. Syn. -- Inquiring; prying; curious; meddling; intrusive. -- Inquisitive, Curious, Prying. Curious denotes a feeling, and inquisitive a habit. We are curious when we desire to learn something new; we are inquisitive when we set ourselves to gain it by inquiry or research. Prying implies inquisitiveness, and is more commonly used in a bad sense, as indicating a desire to penetrate into the secrets of others. curious are to hear, What happens new. Milton. This folio of four pages , happy work! Which not even critics criticise; that holds Inquisitive attention, while I read. Cowper. Nor need we with a prying eye survey The distant skies, to find the Milky Way. Creech.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INQUISITIVE)

• Agape
• Astare
• agog
• astonished
• curious
• inquisitive
• entertained
• amused
• eager
• Curious
• Inquiring
• scrutinizing
• prying
• meddling
• singular
• searching
• interrogative
• peeping
• peering
• rare
• unique
• odd
• recondite

Related words: (words related to INQUISITIVE)

• PEEP SIGHT
  An adjustable piece, pierced with a small hole to peep through in aiming, attached to a rifle or other firearm near the breech; -- distinguished from an open sight.
• MEDDLING
  Meddlesome. Macaulay.
• ASTONISH
  étonner, fr. L. ex out + tonare to thunder, but perhaps influenced by 1. To stun; to render senseless, as by a blow. The very cramp-fish . . . being herself not benumbed, is able to astonish others. Holland. 2. To strike with sudden
• INQUISITIVELY
  In an inquisitive manner. The occasion that made him afterwards so inquisitively apply himself to the study of physic. Boyle.
• PRYTANIS
  A member of one of the ten sections into which the Athenian senate of five hundred was divided, and to each of which belonged the presidency of the senate for about one tenth of the year.
• PRYAN
  See PRIAN
• PEERT
  See PEART
• ASTONISHING
  Very wonderful; of a nature to excite astonishment; as, an astonishing event. Syn. -- Amazing; surprising; wonderful; marvelous. As*ton"ish*ing*ly, adv. -- As*ton"ish*ing*ness, n.
• SEARCHLESS
  Impossible to be searched; inscrutable; impenetrable.
• PEERAGE
  1. The rank or dignity of a peer. Blackstone. 2. The body of peers; the nobility, collectively. When Charlemain with all his peerage fell. Milton.
• PEERESS
  The wife of a peer; a woman ennobled in her own right, or by right of marriage.
• UNIQUE
  Being without a like or equal; unmatched; unequaled; unparalleled; single in kind or excellence; sole. -- U*nique"ly, adv. -- U*nique"ness, n.
• PRY
  A lever; also, leverage. Pry pole, the pole which forms the prop of a hoisting gin, and stands facing the windlass.
• SINGULAR
  Existing by itself; single; individual. The idea which represents one . . . determinate thing, is called a singular idea, whether simple, complex, or compound. I. Watts. (more info) 1. Separate or apart from others; single; distinct. Bacon. And
• INQUIRINGLY
  In an inquiring manner.
• AMUSE
  1. To occupy or engage the attention of; to lose in deep thought; to absorb; also, to distract; to bewilder. Camillus set upon the Gauls when they were amused in receiving their gold. Holland. Being amused with grief, fear, and fright, he could
• INQUIRER
  One who inquires or examines; questioner; investigator. Locke. Expert inquirers after truth. Cowper.
• ENTERTAINER
  One who entertains.
• MEDDLER
  One who meddles; one who interferes or busies himself with things in which he has no concern; an officious person; a busybody.
• PRYTHEE
  See PRITHEE
• RAMUSCULE
  A small ramus, or branch.
• INTERMEDDLE
  To meddle with the affairs of others; to meddle officiously; to interpose or interfere improperly; to mix or meddle with. The practice of Spain hath been, by war and by conditions of treaty, to intermeddle with foreign states. Bacon. Syn. -- To
• OUTPEER
  To excel. Shak.
• LEPRY
  Leprosy. Holland.
• HIPPOPOTAMUS
  A large, amphibious, herbivorous mammal (Hippopotamus amphibius), common in the rivers of Africa. It is allied to the hogs, and has a very thick, naked skin, a thick and square head, a very large muzzle, small eyes and ears, thick and heavy body,