· a request for information
Synonym(s): questioning
· address a question to and expect an answer from; "Ask your teacher about trigonometry"; "The children asked me about their dead grandmother"; "I inquired about their special today"; "He had to ask directions several times"
Hypernym(s): communicate, intercommunicate
· have a wish or desire to know something; "He wondered who had built this beautiful church"
· conduct an inquiry or investigation of; "The district attorney's office investigated reports of possible irregularities"; "inquire into the disappearance of the rich old lady"
Synonym(s): investigate, enquire
· given to inquiry; "an inquiring mind"
Antonym(s): uninquiring