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questuary

UK/ˈkwɛstjʊəɹi/US/ˈkwɛstjʊˌɛɹi/

questuary adjective: acquisitive; greedy.

Adjective

questuary (comparative more questuary, superlative most questuary)

  1. (archaic) Acquisitive; greedy.
    • Although lapidaries and questuary enquirers affirm it, yet the writers of minerals, and natural speculators, conceive that stones which bear this name to be a mineral concretion.1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

Noun

questuary (plural questuaries)

  1. (archaic) One employed to collect profits.

questuary meaning in Bengali

questuary in Bengali

অর্জনপ্রবণ, লোভী

Forms of questuary

Adjective
comparativemore questuary
superlativemost questuary
Noun
pluralquestuaries

Origin of questuary

From Latin quaestuārius.

Questions about questuary

What does questuary mean?
Questuary means acquisitive; greedy.
What is questuary in Bengali?
Questuary in Bengali is অর্জনপ্রবণ, লোভী. See Questuary meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is questuary?
Questuary can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce questuary?
Questuary is pronounced /ˈkwɛstjʊəɹi/ (UK).

Words near questuary in the dictionary

  1. questorships
  2. questrist
  3. questrists
  4. quests
  5. questuaries
  6. questuary
  7. questward
  8. quetch
  9. quetched
  10. quetches
  11. quetching

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Adapted from Wiktionary: questuary (page history and authors); questuary (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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