querying

The word “querying” has 4 syllables: qu-er-y-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈkwɪər.i.ɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for querying?

In the thesaurus, “querying” has 39 synonyms and 24 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for querying along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for querying

  • annoying
  • asking
  • besieging
  • bombarding
  • calling in question
  • calling into question
  • canvasing
  • canvassing
  • catechizing
  • challenging
  • combating
  • combatting
  • contesting
  • cross-examining
  • cross-questioning
  • debriefing
  • disputing
  • doubting
  • examining
  • fighting
  • giving the third degree to
  • grilling
  • harassing
  • hounding
  • impeaching
  • interrogating
  • mistrusting
  • opposing
  • oppugning
  • pestering
  • picking the brains of
  • polling
  • protesting
  • pumping
  • questioning
  • quizzing
  • resisting
  • surveying
  • sweating

Antonyms for querying

  • abiding
  • accepting
  • advocating
  • answering
  • avoiding
  • backing
  • believing
  • championing
  • commenting
  • defending
  • ducking
  • embracing
  • enduring
  • observing
  • promoting
  • rejoining
  • remarking
  • replying
  • responding
  • retorting
  • stomaching
  • supporting
  • swallowing
  • tolerating

Meanings of querying

  • verb
    1. To ask a question.
    2. To ask, inquire.
    3. To question or call into doubt.
    4. To pass a set of instructions to a database to retrieve information from it.
    5. To send a private message to (a user on IRC).
    6. To send out a query letter.
  • noun
    1. The act of making a query.
  • adjective
    1. Questioning, or prone to asking questions.

Example Sentences

  • Querying the database revealed several discrepancies in the financial records.
  • The journalist spent hours querying sources to uncover the truth behind the scandal.
  • Querying the search engine yielded a multitude of relevant results.
  • As a researcher, I often find myself querying various datasets to analyze trends.
  • The detective was querying witnesses to piece together the sequence of events.

On this page you'll find 63 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to querying, such as: abiding, accepting, advocating, annoying, answering, asking, avoiding.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

calling in question

calling into question

debriefing

  • annoying
  • ask questions
  • barraging
  • bombarding
  • bombing
  • catechizing
  • censor
  • cross-examine
  • cross-examining
  • dummy up
  • examine
  • examining
  • flooding
  • gag
  • gather intelligence
  • give the third degree
  • grill
  • grilling
  • harassing
  • hounding
  • hush up
  • interrogate
  • interrogating
  • interview
  • inundating
  • investigate
  • mute
  • muzzle
  • pestering
  • probe
  • pumping
  • put the lid on
  • put through the wringer
  • quash
  • querying
  • questioning
  • quiz
  • quizzing
  • say nothing
  • shut up
  • sit on
  • soft-pedal
  • squelch
  • stifle
  • suppress
  • work over

debunking

  • belying
  • blowing the whistle on
  • challenging
  • confounding
  • confuting
  • contesting
  • critical
  • debating
  • demolishing
  • demystifying
  • demythifying
  • disclosing
  • disconfirming
  • discrediting
  • discussing
  • disproving
  • divulging
  • doubting
  • exposing
  • falsifying
  • giving the lie to
  • hermeneutical
  • mistrusting
  • mooting
  • nailing
  • overthrowing
  • overturning
  • querying
  • questioning
  • rebutting
  • refuting
  • reinterpreting
  • revisionist
  • shooting down
  • showing up
  • talking over
  • telling
  • uncloaking
  • uncovering
  • undressing
  • unmasking
  • unveiling

falsifying

  • belying
  • bending
  • bowdlerizing
  • camouflaging
  • censoring
  • challenging
  • coloring
  • committing perjury
  • complicating
  • confounding
  • confusing
  • confuting
  • contesting
  • cooking
  • debating
  • debunking
  • deceitful
  • deceptive
  • delusive
  • delusory
  • disconfirming
  • discrediting
  • discussing
  • disguising
  • disproving
  • dissembling
  • dissimulating
  • distorting
  • double-crossing
  • double-dealing
  • doubting
  • equivocating
  • false
  • fibbing
  • forsworn
  • fudging
  • garbling
  • giving the lie to
  • guileful
  • inventing
  • lying
  • masking
  • mendacious
  • misdescribing
  • misinterpreting
  • misleading
  • misrelating
  • misrepresenting
  • misspeaking
  • misstating
  • mistaking
  • mistranslating
  • mistrusting
  • mooting
  • mystifying
  • obscuring
  • overthrowing
  • overturning
  • paltering
  • perfidious
  • perjured
  • perverting
  • prevaricating
  • querying
  • questioning
  • rebutting
  • refuting
  • shifty
  • shooting down
  • slanting
  • talking over
  • treacherous
  • tricky
  • twisting
  • two-faced
  • two-timing
  • unreliable
  • untruthful
  • veiling
  • warping
  • whitewashing
  • wrong

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