Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | droll |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | amusing, farcical |
| Synonyms: | absurd, camp, campy, clownish, comic, comical, crack-up, diverting, eccentric, entertaining, for grins, funny, gagged up, gelastic, humorous, jocular, joshing, laffer, laughable, ludicrous, odd, preposterous, quaint, queer, quizzical, ridiculous, riot, risible, waggish, whimsical |
| Antonyms: | dramatic, serious, traumatic, unfunny |
| Main Entry: | eccentric |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bizarre, unusual |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, abnormal, anomalous, beat*, bent*, bizarre, capricious, characteristic, cockeyed, crazy, curious, droll, erratic, far out, flaky, freak, freakish, funky*, funny, idiosyncratic, irregular, kooky, nutty, odd, oddball, off the wall, off-center, offbeat, out in left field, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, queer, quirky, quizzical, singular, strange, uncommon, unconventional, unnatural, way out, weird, whimsical, wild |
| Antonyms: | boring, common, dull, normal, ordinary, plain, regular, standard, unexciting, usual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | incredulous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unbelieving |
| Synonyms: | disbelieving, distrustful, doubtful, doubting, dubious, hesitant, mistrustful, questioning, quizzical, show-me, skeptical, suspect, suspicious, uncertain, unconvinced, unsatisfied, wary |
| Notes: | incredible means 'unbelievable' and incredulous means 'unbelieving' |
| Antonyms: | believing, convinced, credulous |
| 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: | skeptical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disbelieving, leery |
| Synonyms: | agnostic, aporetic, cynical, dissenting, doubtful, doubting, dubious, freethinking, hesitating, incredulous, mistrustful, questioning, quizzical, scoffing, show-me, suspicious, unbelieving, unconvinced |
| Antonyms: | believing, devoted, undoubting |
| Main Entry: | suspicious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | distrustful |
| Synonyms: | apprehensive, cagey, careful, cautious, doubtful, green-eyed, in doubt, incredulous, jealous, leery, mistrustful, not born yesterday on the lookout, questioning, quizzical, skeptical, suspect, suspecting, unbelieving, uptight*, wary, watchful, without belief, without faith, wondering |
| Antonyms: | innocent, trustworthy, trusty |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | whimsical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | playful, fanciful |
| Synonyms: | amusing, arbitrary, capricious, chancy, chimerical, comical, curious, dicey, droll, eccentric, erratic, fantastic, flaky*, freakish, funny, kinky*, mischievous, odd, peculiar, quaint, queer*, quizzical, singular, uncertain, unpredictable, unusual, waggish, wayward, weird* |
| Antonyms: | behaving, reasonable, sensible |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | kooky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | eccentric |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, abnormal, anomalous, beat*, bent*, bizarre, capricious, characteristic, cockeyed, cranky, crazy*, curious, droll, erratic, far out, flaky, freak, freakish, funky*, funny, idiosyncratic, irregular, nutty, odd, oddball, off the wall, off-center, offbeat, out in left field, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, queer, quirky, quizzical, singular, strange, uncommon, unconventional, unnatural, unusual, way out, weird*, whimsical, wild |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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