Words and phrases that have a meaning related to asking: (181 results)
Often used in the same context:
requesting, urging, imploring, begging, seeking, telling, inquiring, petitioning, demanding, calling, wanting, pleading, inviting, proposing, wondering, instructing, objecting, pestering, recommending, refusing, badgering, advising, answering, beseeching, pressuring, entreating, looking, clamoring, talking, reminding, saying, agreeing, persuaded, trying, complaining, appealing, bothering, informing, ordering, obliged, pondering, promised, pledging, soliciting, compelled, paying, thanking, notifying, obligated, advocating, stumped, hoping, sending, waiting, questioning, suing, debating, contemplating, prodding, owe, pushing, puzzled, explaining, accepting, exhorting, noticing, decided, arguing, going, hesitating, responding, replying, mulling, hounding, contacting, wishing, prompting, criticizing, doing, expecting, queried, praying, encouraged, considering, supposed, forcing, pressing, searching, hassling, approached, apologizing, harassing, letting, why, thinking, discussing, requiring, reconsidering, need, scrambling, admonishing, rejecting, passing, bringing, choosing, communicating, request, sitting, something, striving, supplication, watching, abiding, ex, interrogation, kissing, lie, asked, ask, astute, commonsensical, insightful, lordships, perceptive, perspicacious, thoughtful, unhelpful, yourself, aimless, any, assessment, bolts, curt, directed, discreet, easiest
More specific:
appeal, billing, call, charge, communion, entreaty, indirect request, invitation, notice, notification, orison, petition, prayer, trick or treat, wish
Appears in the definition of:
., abandon, abraham, ask, canvas, canvass, comme il faut, epistle of paul the apostle to philemon, epistle to philemon, for the asking, go fish, highway robbery, ibrahim, international wanted notice, invocation, markup, merely, panhandle, panhandler, persistently, philemon, plaint, poll, red notice, sagacious, supplication, trick or treat
More general:
speech act
Synonyms:
Also try:interrogative, interrogatory
— Adjectives for asking: mere, question, first, worth, own, much, comfortable, simple, more, constant, continual, more...
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