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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | probing |
| Synonyms: | curious, experimental, exploratory, fact-finding, inquiring, inquisitive, penetrating, seeking, sharp, studious |
| Main Entry: | crucial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | critical, important |
| Synonyms: | acute, central, clamorous, climacteric, climatic, compelling, deciding, decisive, desperate, dire, essential, hanging by thread, high-priority, imperative, insistent, momentous, necessary, on thin ice, pivotal, pressing, searching, showdown, touch and go, touchy, urgent, vital |
| Notes: | the words crucial, essential, and vital cannot be qualified (cannot be more or less...) |
| Antonyms: | inessential, trivial, uncritical, unimportant |
| Main Entry: | curious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | desiring knowledge, understanding |
| Synonyms: | analytical, disquisitive, examining, impertinent, inquiring, inquisitive, inspecting, interested, interfering, intrusive, investigative, meddlesome, meddling, nosy, peeping, peering, prurient, prying, puzzled, questioning, scrutinizing, searching, snoopy, tampering |
| Antonyms: | disinterested, incurious, indifferent, uninterested |
| Main Entry: | inquiring |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wondering, curious |
| Synonyms: | Socratic, analytical, catechistic, doubtful, examining, fact-finding, heuristic, inquisitive, interested, interrogative, investigative, investigatory, nosy, outward-looking, probing, prying, questioning, quizzical, searching, speculative, studious |
| Antonyms: | disinterested, incurious, unskeptical |
| Main Entry: | inquisitive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | curious |
| Synonyms: | analytical, big-eyed, challenging, forward, impertinent, inquiring, inquisitorial, interested, intrusive, investigative, meddlesome, meddling, nosy, peering, personal, poking, presumptuous, probing, prying, questioning, scrutinizing, searching, sifting, snooping, speculative |
| Antonyms: | incurious, indifferent, unconcerned, uninterested |
| Main Entry: | nosy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | curious; prying |
| Synonyms: | eavesdropping, inquisitive, inquisitorial, inquisitory, interested, interfering, intermeddling, intrusive, meddlesome, personal, searching, snooping, snoopy |
| Antonyms: | indifferent, uncaring, unconcerned, uninterested |
| Main Entry: | observant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | alert, watchful |
| Synonyms: | advertent, alive, attentive, bright, clear-sighted, comprehending, considering, contemplating, correct, deducing, detecting, discerning, discovering, discriminating, eager, eagle-eyed, heedful, intelligent, intentive, interested, keen, mindful, not missing a trick, obedient, observative, on one's toes, on the ball, penetrating, perceptive, questioning, quick, regardful, searching, sensitive, sharp, sharp-eyed, surveying, understanding, vigilant, wide-awake |
| Antonyms: | careless, inattentive, indifferent, thoughtless, unaware, unmindful, unobservant, unwatchful |
| Main Entry: | penetrating |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intelligent |
| Synonyms: | acute, astute, critical, discerning, discriminating, incisive, keen, penetrative, perceptive, perspicacious, profound, quick, quick-witted, sagacious, searching, sharp, sharp-witted, shrewd |
| Antonyms: | idiotic, senseless, stupid, unintelligent |
| Main Entry: | quizzical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | appearing confused or curious |
| Synonyms: | amusing, aporetic, arch, bantering, derisive, disbelieving, eccentric, incredulous, inquiring, inquisitive, mocking, odd, probing, quaint, queer, questioning, sardonic, searching, show-me, skeptical, supercilious, suspicious, teasing, unbelieving, unusual |
| Antonyms: | certain, understanding |
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