Word Meanings - QUESTIONER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One who asks questions; an inquirer. "Little time for idle questioners." Tennyson.
Related words: (words related to QUESTIONER)
- LITTLENESS
The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness. - INQUIRER
One who inquires or examines; questioner; investigator. Locke. Expert inquirers after truth. Cowper. - LITTLE-EASE
An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison. Latimer. - TENNYSONIAN
Of or pertaining to Alfred Tennyson, the English poet ; resembling, or having some of the characteristics of, his poetry, as simplicity, pictorial quality, sensuousness, etc. - LITTLE
place being supplied by less, or, rarely, lesser. See Lesser. For the superlative least is used, the regular form, littlest, occurring very rarely, except in some of the English provinces, and occasionally in colloquial language. " Where love is - DO-LITTLE
One who performs little though professing much. Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson. - BELITTLE
To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way. T. Jefferson.