quest

The word “quest” has 1 syllable: quest

It's pronounced as /kwɛst/


What is synonym and antonym for quest?

In the thesaurus, “quest” has 63 synonyms and 9 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for quest

  • adventure
  • ask
  • badger
  • bespeak
  • canvas
  • canvass
  • chase
  • claim
  • command
  • crusade
  • delving
  • demand
  • desire
  • dun
  • enjoin
  • enterprise
  • exact
  • examination
  • expedition
  • exploration
  • forage
  • harass
  • hound
  • hunt
  • importune
  • impose
  • inquest
  • inquiry
  • inquisition
  • investigation
  • invite
  • invoke
  • journey
  • look for
  • look up
  • mission
  • necessitate
  • need
  • pilgrimage
  • probe
  • pursual
  • pursue
  • pursuit
  • quarry
  • recon
  • reconnaissance
  • request
  • require
  • requisition
  • research
  • scout
  • search
  • seek
  • seeking
  • shakedown
  • solicit
  • survey
  • sweep
  • take
  • urge
  • voyage
  • want
  • warrant

Antonyms for quest

Meanings of quest

  • noun
    1. A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission.
    2. The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit.
    3. Request; desire; solicitation.
    4. A group of people making search or inquiry.
    5. Inquest; jury of inquest.
  • verb
    1. To seek or pursue a goal; to undertake a mission or job.
    2. To search for; to examine.
    3. (of a tick) To locate and attach to a host animal.

Example Sentences

  • The knight embarked on a perilous quest to rescue the captured princess.
  • In his quest for knowledge, the scholar traveled to distant lands.
  • The protagonist's quest for justice formed the central theme of the novel.
  • Our team is on a continuous quest for innovation and improvement.
  • She dedicated her life to the quest for inner peace and enlightenment.

On this page you'll find 72 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to quest, such as: adventure, ask, badger, bespeak, canvas, canvass, chase.

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

Related Words

lack

  • abridgement
  • absence
  • ask
  • be deficient in
  • be short of
  • be without
  • bear
  • beg
  • blankness
  • challenge
  • claim
  • command
  • crunch
  • curtailment
  • dearth
  • decrease
  • default
  • defect
  • deficiency
  • deficit
  • demand
  • depletion
  • deprivation
  • destitution
  • distress
  • drought
  • drouth
  • emptiness
  • enjoin
  • entail
  • essential
  • exact
  • exigency
  • exiguity
  • failure
  • famine
  • famishment
  • have need of
  • hurting for
  • inadequacy
  • inadequateness
  • inferiority
  • insist
  • insufficience
  • insufficiency
  • involve
  • lacuna
  • loss
  • meagerness
  • minus
  • miss
  • necessitate
  • necessity
  • need
  • needfulness
  • not got
  • omission
  • out
  • paucity
  • pinch
  • poorness
  • poverty
  • press
  • privation
  • quest
  • reduction
  • require
  • requirement
  • requisite
  • retrenchment
  • scantiness
  • scantness
  • scarceness
  • scarcity
  • shortage
  • shortcoming
  • shortfall
  • shortness
  • shrinkage
  • shrinking
  • skimpiness
  • slightness
  • stint
  • stipulate
  • take
  • too little too late
  • undersupply
  • vacuity
  • vacuum
  • void
  • want
  • warrant

quarry

  • aim
  • beast
  • brute
  • burrow
  • chase
  • claw
  • creature
  • critter
  • delve
  • dig
  • dig in
  • dredge
  • excavate
  • game
  • grub
  • kill
  • mine
  • objective
  • prey
  • prize
  • quest
  • ravin
  • scoop
  • shovel
  • spade
  • target
  • victim

safari

ululate

question

  • Q and A
  • absorb
  • affair
  • analyze
  • annoy
  • argument
  • ask
  • ask about
  • assimilate
  • basis
  • believe
  • besiege
  • body
  • bombard
  • bottom
  • brainteaser
  • bulk
  • burden
  • call
  • call in question
  • call into question
  • canvas
  • canvass
  • cast doubt upon
  • catechism
  • catechize
  • cavil
  • censure
  • centerpiece
  • challenge
  • chew on
  • chew over
  • cogitate
  • combat
  • complaint
  • compunction
  • conceive
  • conclude
  • conflict
  • confusion
  • consider
  • consideration
  • contemplate
  • content
  • contention
  • contest
  • controvert
  • conundrum
  • core
  • count
  • criticism
  • cross-examine
  • cross-question
  • crux
  • debate
  • debrief
  • defiance
  • deliberate
  • demur
  • demurral
  • demurrer
  • difficulty
  • digest
  • disbelieve
  • discount
  • discredit
  • discussion
  • disobedience
  • dispute
  • dissent
  • distrust
  • distrustfulness
  • doubt
  • dubiety
  • dubitation
  • enigma
  • enquire
  • entertain
  • essence
  • essential
  • essentiality
  • examination
  • examine
  • exception
  • exploration
  • explore
  • expostulation
  • eye
  • fight
  • fundamental
  • fuss
  • generality
  • gist
  • give the third degree
  • give the third degree to
  • go over
  • grill
  • grist
  • harass
  • hassle
  • heart
  • hesitate
  • hit
  • hit up
  • hold out for
  • hound
  • idea
  • impeach
  • impugn
  • incertitude
  • indetermination
  • inquest
  • inquire
  • inquiring
  • inquiry
  • inquisition
  • interrogate
  • interrogating
  • interrogation
  • interrogative
  • interrogatory
  • interview
  • investigate
  • investigation
  • issue
  • kernel
  • keynote
  • kick
  • kick around
  • look at
  • main
  • make inquiry
  • marrow
  • mass
  • matter
  • meditate
  • misdoubt
  • misgiving
  • mistrust
  • mistrustfulness
  • misunderstanding
  • motif
  • motion
  • motive
  • mystery
  • negate
  • net
  • niggle
  • nub
  • nubbin
  • nucleus
  • objection
  • opine
  • oppose
  • oppugn
  • perpend
  • pester
  • petition
  • pick the brains of
  • pith
  • pivot
  • point
  • poll
  • ponder
  • poser
  • probe
  • probing
  • problem
  • proposal
  • proposition
  • protest
  • pry
  • pump
  • purport
  • purpose
  • put through the wringer
  • put to the question
  • puzzle
  • puzzle over
  • qualm
  • qualmishness
  • quarrel
  • query
  • quest
  • questioning
  • questionnaire
  • quibble
  • quick
  • quiz
  • raise question
  • reason
  • rebellion
  • reluctance
  • reminisce
  • remonstrance
  • remonstration
  • request
  • research
  • reservation
  • resist
  • review
  • revolve
  • riddle
  • ruminate
  • scruple
  • search
  • second-guess
  • seek
  • show curiosity
  • skepticism
  • solicit
  • sound out
  • squabble
  • staple
  • static
  • stickler
  • stink
  • study
  • stumper
  • subject
  • subject matter
  • substance
  • sum
  • survey
  • suspect
  • suspicion
  • sweat
  • sweat it out of
  • talking point
  • theme
  • third degree
  • topic
  • toughie
  • toughy
  • turn
  • uncertainty
  • unease
  • uneasiness
  • unwillingness
  • weigh
  • wonder about
  • work over

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