searching
English
Pronunciation
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "GA" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈsɝt͡ʃɪŋ/
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "RP" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈsɜːtʃɪŋ/
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)tʃɪŋ
Verb
searching
Adjective
searching (comparative more searching, superlative most searching)
- (of an investigation, etc.) Thorough.
- 1916 March, R. A. Millikan, “A Direct Photoelectric Determination of Planck's "h"”, in Physical Review, volume 7, number 3, , page 388:
- Einstein's photoelectric equation has been subjected to very searching tests and it appears in every case to predict exactly the observed results.
- Looking over closely; penetrating; severe.
- a searching gaze; searching criticism
- 1899 Feb, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, page 201:
- ‘So you are going out there. Famous. Interesting too.’ He gave me a searching glance, and made another note.
Noun
searching (plural searchings)
- search; hunt
- 2007 November 4, Mark Oppenheimer, “The Turning of an Atheist”, in New York Times[1]:
- Depending on whom you ask, Antony Flew is either a true convert whose lifelong intellectual searchings finally brought him to God or a senescent scholar possibly being exploited by his associates.