inquiring

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of inquire

plural inquirings

1. inquiry

   What need you trouble with vain inquirings / The surly gods or your own ignorant spirit?

   1923, The London Mercury, volume 8, page 468

   1 more example

   […] these are the results of Herodotus' factual inquirings, the accurate information, the right account, which he acquired about some matters of importance to himself and to his audience and about which conflicting accounts have been given.

   2003, Gerald A. Press, Development of the Idea of History in Antiquity, page 31

comparative more inquiring · superlative most inquiring

1. inquisitive

   When pressed for an explanation, he was inclined to use the word "Symbolic" in a manner extremely confusing to the inquiring lay mind.

   1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 150