Meanings
comparative more in question · superlative most in question
- Under consideration, under discussion.
The man in question just walked in.
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The topic in question is not something that can be easily addressed due to its sensitivity.
The police officer told me the suspect in question was last seen on Swanston St.
When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.
1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLCBecause large language models are trained on so much text, they provide good estimates of surprisal of words in context. Hence, a surprisal measure usually includes all factors that might affect the acceptability of a sentence, from word frequency to the plausibility of the meaning, to the structural frequency of the material in question.
2025, Edward A. F. Gibson, “Preliminaries: Components of Language Structure” (chapter 2), in Syntax: A Cognitive Approach, MIT Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 24
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveopen to doubt or suspicion
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Catalan en qüestió
- en qüestióunder consideration or discussion
Chinese Mandarin 考慮中的 /考虑中的, 討論中的 /讨论中的
- 考慮中的 /考虑中的 (kǎolǜ zhōng de)under consideration or discussion
- 討論中的 /讨论中的 (tǎolùn zhōng de)under consideration or discussion
- 受到懷疑 /受到怀疑 (shòudào huáiyí)in doubt, under dispute
- 不確定 /不确定 (bù quèdìng)in doubt, under dispute
- 在爭論中 /在争论中 (zài zhēnglùn zhōng)in doubt, under dispute
Danish pågældende, vedkommende
- pågældendeunder consideration or discussion
- vedkommendeunder consideration or discussion
Dutch in kwestie, onderhavig
- in kwestieunder consideration or discussion
- onderhavigunder consideration or discussion
Finnish kyseinen, kyseenalainen
- kyseinenunder consideration or discussion
- kyseenalainenin doubt, under dispute
French en question, remis en question
- en questionunder consideration or discussion
- remis en questionin doubt, under dispute
German betreffend, besagt
- betreffendunder consideration or discussion
- besagtunder consideration or discussion
- fraglichunder consideration or discussion
- infrage (stehend)in doubt, under dispute
- fraglichin doubt, under dispute
Hungarian szóban forgó, kétséges
- szóban forgóunder consideration or discussion
- kétségesin doubt, under dispute
- kérdésesin doubt, under dispute
- bizonytalanin doubt, under dispute
Irish i gceist
- i gceistunder consideration or discussion
Italian in questione
- in questioneunder consideration or discussion
Japanese 問題の
- 問題の (mondai no)under consideration or discussion
Portuguese em questão
- em questãounder consideration or discussion
Romanian în cauză
- în cauzăunder consideration or discussion
Russian обсуждаемый, рассматриваемый
- обсуждаемый (obsuždajemyj)under consideration or discussion
- рассматриваемый (rassmatrivajemyj)under consideration or discussion
- спо́рный (spórnyj)in doubt, under dispute
- сомни́тельный (somnítelʹnyj)in doubt, under dispute
Spanish en cuestión, en tela de juicio
- en cuestiónunder consideration or discussion
- en tela de juicioin doubt, under dispute
- en entredichoin doubt, under dispute
Cite this entry
in question. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/in%20question
“in question.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/in%20question. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “in question,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/in%20question.
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