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querysome

querysome adjective: characterised or marked by inquiry, inquisitiveness, or inquisition.

Adjective

querysome (comparative more querysome, superlative most querysome)

  1. Characterised or marked by inquiry, inquisitiveness, or inquisition.
    • “Including having a bouncer on the premises?” “A bouncer?” “A guy in a uniform who gets rid of querysome people by talking their hind legs off—but making it clear that if necessary he'd pull them off with his bare hands.”2016, Michael Z. Lewin, The Enemies Within
    • Elizabeth gave him a querysome look and tapped her pencil stub on her little pad of paper. “You just asked for my speciality without me even tellin' you about it. I don't recognize you and I doubt my pie is all that famous.”2016, William W. Johnstone, Manhunt

Forms of querysome

comparativemore querysome
superlativemost querysome
alternative formquerisome

Origin of querysome

From query + -some.

Questions about querysome

What does querysome mean?
Querysome means characterised or marked by inquiry, inquisitiveness, or inquisition.
What part of speech is querysome?
Querysome is an adjective.

Words near querysome in the dictionary

  1. queryingly
  2. queryings
  3. queryist
  4. queryists
  5. Querys
  6. querysome
  7. Querétaro
  8. ques
  9. ques.
  10. quesabirria
  11. quesabirrias

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