Synonyms: questioning, inquiring
Definition: a request for information
Synonyms: speculative, questioning, wondering, inquisitive
Definition: showing curiosity
Usage: if someone saw a man climbing a light post they might get inquisitive; raised a speculative eyebrow
Similar words: curious
Definition: eager to investigate and learn or learn more (sometimes about others' concerns)
Usage: 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
Synonyms: questioning, quizzical
Definition: perplexed (as if being expected to know something that you do not know)
Usage: he had a quizzical expression
Similar words: perplexed
Definition: full of difficulty or confusion or bewilderment
Usage: perplexed language; perplexed state of the world
Synonyms: sceptical, skeptical, doubting, questioning
Definition: marked by or given to doubt
Usage: a skeptical attitude; a skeptical listener
Similar words: distrustful
Definition: having or showing distrust
Usage: a man of distrustful nature; my experience...in other fields of law has made me distrustful of rules of thumb generally- B.N.Cardozo; vigilant and distrustful superintendence- Thomas Jefferson