nnoun.communicationa sentence of inquiry that asks for a replySynset:interrogation interrogative sentence question
Examples:- he asked a direct question
- he had trouble phrasing his interrogations
Derivationally Related Form:questioninterrogate
Hypernyms:sentence
Inherited Hypernyms:questionsentencestring of wordslanguagecommunicationabstractionentity
Inherited Hypernyms:questionsentencestring of wordsstringsequenceseriesorderingarrangementgroupabstractionentity
Direct Hyponyms:cross-questionleading questionyes-no question
Full Hyponyms:cross-questionleading questionyes-no question
nnoun.relationsome linguists consider interrogative sentences to constitute a moodSynset:interrogative mood
Hypernyms:modality mode mood
Inherited Hypernyms:interrogative moodmoodgrammatical relationlinguistic relationrelationabstractionentity
adjadj.pertrelating to verbs in the so-called interrogative moodTopic:grammar
Examples:- not all questions have an interrogative construction
Pertainyms:interrogative mood
Inherited Hypernyms:interrogative
adjadj.allrelating to the use of or having the nature of an interrogationSynset:interrogatory
Antonyms:declarativedeclaratory
Derivationally Related Form:interrogate
Inherited Hypernyms:interrogative