- inquisitory, probing, searching - diligent and thorough in inquiry or investigation; "a probing inquiry"; "a searching investigation of their past dealings"
Antonyms: uninquiring, uninquisitive (indirect, via inquiring)
- searching, trenchant - having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought, expression, or intellect; "searching insights"; "trenchant criticism"
Antonyms: unintelligent, stupid (indirect, via intelligent)
- searching - exploring thoroughly
Antonyms: nonexploratory, nonexplorative, unexploratory, unexplorative (indirect, via exploratory)
- search, seek, look for - try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of; "The police are searching for clues"; "They are searching for the missing man in the entire county"
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun search1, noun searcher2, noun searcher1
Sam cannot search Sue
The banks search the check
They search the water
- search, look - search or seek; "We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest"; "Look elsewhere for the perfect gift!"
--2 is one way to examine, see
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun search1, noun searcher2, noun searcher1
The men search the area for animals
The men search for animals in the area
- research, search, explore - inquire into
--3 is one way to investigate, look into
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun search2, noun searcher1
Somebody ----s something
- search - subject to a search; "The police searched the suspect"; "We searched the whole house for the missing keys"
--4 is one way to examine, see
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun search5, noun searcher2, noun searcher1
They want to search the prisoners