inquirer

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: in=quir=er

CIDE DICTIONARY

inquirer, n. [Written also enquirer.].

 One who inquires or examines; questioner; investigator.  Locke.  [1913 Webster]
"Expert inquirers after truth."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

inquirer

Paul Pry, Peeping Tom, asker, auditor, autodidact, busybody, catechist, cross-interrogator, cross-questioner, detective, eavesdropper, educatee, examiner, gossip, inquisitionist, inquisitive, inquisitor, interlocutor, interpellator, interrogator, interrogatrix, interviewer, learner, monitor, nosy Parker, opinion-sampler, poller, pollster, praepostor, prefect, prober, pry, pupil, querier, querist, questioner, questionist, quidnunc, quizzer, rubberneck, rubbernecker, sampler, scholar, scopophiliac, secret agent, self-taught person, sightseer, snoop, snooper, student, studier, trainee, voyeur, yenta

ROGET THESAURUS

inquirer

Curiosity

N curiosity, interest, thirst for knowledge, thirst for truth, curiosity, curiousness, inquiring mind, inquisitiveness, omnivorous intellect, devouring mind, inquirer, sightseer, quidnunc, newsmonger, Paul Pry, eavesdropper, gossip, rubberneck, intellectual, seeker, seeker after truth, curious, inquisitive, burning with curiosity, overcurious, inquiring, prying, snoopy, nosy, peering, prurient, inquisitorial, inquisitory, curious as a cat, agape, what's the matter? what next? consumed with curios, curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought it back, curiouser and curiouser.

Inquiry

N inquiry, request, search, research, quest, pursuit, examination, review, scrutiny, investigation, indagation, perquisition, perscrutation, pervestigation, inquest, inquisition, exploration, exploitation, ventilation, sifting, calculation, analysis, dissection, resolution, induction, Baconian method, strict inquiry, close inquiry, searching inquiry, exhaustive inquiry, narrow search, strict search, study, scire facias, ad referendum, trial, questioning, interrogation, interrogatory, interpellation, challenge, examination, cross-examination, catechism, feeler, Socratic method, zetetic philosophy, leading question, discussion, reconnoitering, reconnaissance, prying, espionage, espionnage, domiciliary visit, peep behind the curtain, lantern of Diogenes, question, query, problem, desideratum, point to be solved, porism, subject of inquiry, field of inquiry, subject of controversy, point in dispute, matter in dispute, moot point, issue, question at issue, bone of contention, plain question, fair question, open question, enigma, knotty point, quodlibet, threshold of an inquiry, inquirer, investigator, inquisitor, inspector, querist, examiner, catechist, scrutator scrutineer scrutinizer, analyst, quidnunc, inquiry, inquisitive, requisitive, requisitory, catechetical, inquisitorial, analytic, in search of, in quest of, on the lookout for, interrogative, zetetic, all searching, undetermined, untried, undecided, in question, in dispute, in issue, in course of inquiry, under discussion, under consideration, under investigation, sub judice, moot, proposed, doubtful, quaere?, what?, why?, wherefore?, whence?, whither?, where?, how comes it?, how happens it?, how is it?, what is the reason?, what's the matter?, nicht wahr?, what's in the wind?, what on earth?, when?, who?.