Question
A question may be either a linguistic expression used to make a request for information, or else the request itself made by such an expression. This information may be provided with an answer.
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More definitions of "question":
- (verb): Challenge the accuracy, probity, or propriety of.
Example: "We must question your judgment in this matter"
Synonyms: oppugn, call into question
- (noun): An informal reference to a marriage proposal.
Example: "He was ready to pop the question"
- (noun): An instance of questioning.
Example: "There was a question about my training"
Synonyms: inquiry, enquiry, query, interrogation
- (noun): Uncertainty about the truth or factuality of existence of something.
Example: "There is no question about the validity of the enterprise"
Synonyms: doubt, dubiousness, doubtfulness
- (noun): A formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote.
Example: "She called for the question"
Synonyms: motion
- (verb): Pose a series of questions to.
Synonyms: interrogate
- (verb): Place in doubt or express doubtful speculation.
Synonyms: wonder
- (verb): Pose a question.
Synonyms: query
- (noun): A sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply.
Example: "He asked a direct question"
Synonyms: interrogation, interrogative, interrogative sentence
- (verb): Conduct an interview in television, newspaper, and radio reporting.
Synonyms: interview
Famous quotes containing the word question:
“Irishness is not primarily a question of birth or blood or language; it is the condition of being involved in the Irish situation, and usually of being mauled by it.”
—Conor Cruise O’Brien (b. 1917)
“The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is “What does a woman want?””
—Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)
“Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question “Have we anything to eat?” will be answered not in material but in ethical terms.”
—Hugo Ball (1886–1927)