interrogative
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English
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Etymology
[edit]From Late Latin interrogātīvus.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌɪn.təˈɹɒɡ.ə.tɪv/
Audio (Received Pronunciation): (file)
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): /ˌɪn.təˈɹɑ.ɡə.tɪv/, [ˌɪn.təˈɹɑ.ɡə.ɾɪv]
Audio (General American): (file)
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˌɪn.təˈɹɔɡ.ə.tɪv/, [ˌɪn.təˈɹɔɡ.ə.ɾɪv]
Adjective
[edit]interrogative
- (grammar) Asking or denoting a question: as, an interrogative phrase, pronoun, or point.
- 1877, William Dwight Whitney, Essentials of English Grammar for the Use of Schools, §470:
- The regular place of the interrogative word, of whatever kind, is at the beginning of the sentence, or as near it as possible.
- Pertaining to inquiry; questioning
- He took on an interrogative tone of voice.
- 1847, Charles Sealsfield, Rambleton: A Romance of Fashionable Life in New-York during the Great Speculation of 1836, →OCLC, page 127:
- Thus speaking, the good man regarded his lady with an interrogative look. "I do n't know, dear!" she replied kindly, and sighing again.
Synonyms
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[edit]asking or denoting a question
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Noun
[edit]interrogative (plural interrogatives)
- (grammar) A word (pronoun, pronominal adjective, or adverb) implying interrogation, or used for asking a question: why, who, when, etc.
- (typography, archaic) Synonym of question mark ⟨?⟩.
- 1824, J. Johnson, Typographia:
- There be five manner of points and divisions most used among cunning men; the which if they be well used, make the sentence very light and easy to be understood, both to the reader and hearer: and they be these, virgil,—come,—parenthesis,—plain point,—interrogative.
- 1842, F. Francillon, An Essay on Punctuation, page 9:
- Whoever introduced the several points, it seems that a full-point, a point called come, answering to our colon-point, a point called virgil answering to our comma-point, the parenthesis-points and interrogative-point, were used at the close of the fourteenth, or beginning of the fifteenth century.
- (rare) A question; an interrogation.
- 1819, Sir Walter Scott, A Legend of Montrose, section XII:
- "Who are you, sir, and what is your business?" demanded the Marquis... "That is a fair interrogative, my lord," answered Dalgetty.
Synonyms
[edit]- (punctuation mark): See question mark
Derived terms
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[edit]a word implying interrogation
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References
[edit]- “interrogative”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
French
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[edit]interrogative f sg
German
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Adjective
[edit]interrogative
- inflection of interrogativ:
Italian
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[edit]interrogative f pl
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From interrogātīvus (“interrogative”).
Adverb
[edit]interrogātīvē (comparative interrogātīvius, superlative interrogātīvissimē)
- interrogatively
- Synonym: interroganter
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “interrogative”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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