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Interrogative

adjective
1.
Relating to verbs in the so-called interrogative mood.
2.
Relating to the use of or having the nature of an interrogation.  Synonym: interrogatory.






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"Interrogative" Quotes from Famous Books



... admirably cool and composed, glancing at the Countess for an instant with an interrogative expression; then he acknowledged my presence ...
— The Maids of Paradise • Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

... Stoddard with an interrogative note in his voice. "But after all there's no need for people to be so determined to understand each ...
— The Power and the Glory • Grace MacGowan Cooke

... the young man said finally. "The psycho-integrator isn't any standard interrogative technique; it's dangerous and treacherous. You never know for sure just what you're doing when you dig down into a man's brain tissue ...
— The Dark Door • Alan Edward Nourse

... viribus, below 18 quae sunt gerenda praescribo et quo modo. — FOEDUS: this seems opposed to pacem as a formal engagement is to a mere abstention from hostilities. — NON DUBITAVIT DICERE: when dubitare means 'to hesitate' (about a course of action), and the sentence is negative, or an interrogative sentence assuming a negative answer, the infinitive construction generally follows, as here; but the infinitive is rare in a positive sentence. When dubitare means to 'be in doubt' (as to whether certain statements ...
— Cato Maior de Senectute • Marcus Tullius Cicero

... Mary looked puzzled—interrogative. But she checked her question, and drew him back instead to his narrative—to the small incidents and signs which had gradually revealed to him, among even his brother clergy, years before that date, the working of ideas and thoughts like his own. ...
— The Case of Richard Meynell • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... neither, referring to nor, are conjunctions, and not adjectives. Which and what, with their compounds, whichever or whichsoever, whatever or whatsoever, though sometimes put before nouns as adjectives, are, for the most part, relative or interrogative pronouns. When the noun is used after them, they are adjectives; when it is omitted, they are pronouns: as, "There is a witness of God, which witness gives true judgement."—I. Penington. Here the word ...
— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown



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