interrogative

She includes any information-seeking act, from a verbal interrogative to the sniff one might give a carton of milk to gauge its freshness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

Over the holiday season, there were online pile-ons galore, with straight women repeatedly taking gay critics of the show to task over their negative or merely interrogative opinions of the series.

From Salon ● Jan. 2, 2026

But Ghani’s mode is less interrogative than associative.

From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2021

Had Cooper approached this question with the same interrogative spirit with which she approached her own narrative assumptions, the book would have felt more complete.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 14, 2020

And so, instead of saying Ashoke’s name, she utters the interrogative that has come to replace it, which translates roughly as “Are you listening to me?”

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

Speaking in a deadpan monotone, he is prone to responding to interrogatives with a curt “affirmative” or “negative” and saying things like “normal is for normal people.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2020

Piqued by the exclusion, he circulates a public letter, in which his resentments are masked by interrogatives and faux naïveté:

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 3, 2017

It is your current life's answer to these interrogatives that most interest people in this material world in your behalf.

From Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century by Booker T. Washington

Harry felt the enthusiasm of friendship; an hundred interrogatives were put to him in a moment as where had he been? where was he going? how did he do? &c. &c.

From Henry Fielding: a Memoir by G. M. Godden

This word is one of the interrogatives in the Indian language, and is equivalent to "what" in the English language.

From History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan A Grammar of Their Language, and Personal and Family History of the Author by Andrew J. Blackbird