questing

The word “questing” has 2 syllables: ques-ting

It's pronounced as /ˈkwɛs.tɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for questing?

In the thesaurus, “questing” has 31 synonyms and 8 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for questing

  • asking
  • badgering
  • bespeaking
  • claiming
  • commanding
  • demanding
  • desiring
  • dunning
  • enjoining
  • exacting
  • harassing
  • hounding
  • hunting
  • importuning
  • imposing
  • inviting
  • invoking
  • looking for
  • looking up
  • necessitating
  • needing
  • pursuing
  • requesting
  • requiring
  • requisitioning
  • seeking
  • soliciting
  • taking
  • urging
  • wanting
  • warranting

Antonyms for questing

Meanings of questing

  • 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.
  • noun
    1. The act of going in quest of something.

Example Sentences

  • Questing for adventure, the young explorer set off into the unknown wilderness.
  • The scholars were questing for ancient relics buried beneath the desert sands.
  • Birds were seen questing for food among the branches of the forest.
  • The hero spent years questing for the legendary sword that could defeat the dragon.
  • In the virtual world of the game, players were constantly questing for treasure and glory.

On this page you'll find 39 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to questing, such as: asking, badgering, bespeaking, claiming, commanding, demanding, desiring.

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

Related Words

cadging

  • asking
  • begging
  • beseeching
  • besieging
  • bludging
  • claiming
  • coercing
  • commanding
  • compelling
  • conjuring
  • demanding
  • desiring
  • entreating
  • forcing
  • impetrating
  • imploring
  • importuning
  • insisting
  • invoking
  • mooching
  • petitioning
  • praying
  • requesting
  • requiring
  • soliciting
  • sponging
  • suing
  • supplicating

wanting

  • abominable
  • absent
  • abysmal
  • admiring
  • adoring
  • appreciating
  • asking
  • atrocious
  • away
  • awful
  • bad
  • bankrupt
  • bare
  • bastard
  • bearing
  • begging
  • below par
  • bereft
  • brutal
  • bum
  • burned out
  • bush
  • bush-league
  • calling for
  • challenging
  • cheesy
  • cherishing
  • choosing
  • claiming
  • coarse
  • commanding
  • common
  • cooked
  • counterfeit
  • coveting
  • crappy
  • craving
  • crumby
  • crummy
  • cut off
  • cut-rate
  • damnable
  • dead
  • deciding
  • defective
  • deficient
  • defunct
  • demanding
  • departed
  • deplorable
  • deprived
  • desiderating
  • desiring
  • destitute
  • determining
  • detestable
  • devoid
  • digging
  • disappointing
  • disastrous
  • dissatisfactory
  • done
  • dreadful
  • egregious
  • empty
  • enjoining
  • enjoying
  • entailing
  • exacting
  • execrable
  • expired
  • extinct
  • failing
  • fake
  • fancying
  • faulty
  • favoring
  • feeling like
  • finished
  • flagrant
  • flawed
  • from hunger
  • gnarly
  • gone
  • gross
  • half-baked
  • hand-to-mouth
  • horrendous
  • horrible
  • ill
  • imperfect
  • in default
  • inadequate
  • incomplete
  • inferior
  • insisting
  • insufficient
  • involving
  • junky
  • lacking
  • lame
  • lapsed
  • lean
  • less
  • lesser
  • light
  • liking
  • lost
  • lousy
  • loving
  • low
  • low-grade
  • low-rent
  • meager
  • meagre
  • mean
  • mediocre
  • mere
  • minimum
  • minus
  • miscreant
  • miserable
  • miserly
  • missing
  • necessitating
  • needed
  • needing
  • niggardly
  • nonexistent
  • not good enough
  • not up to par
  • obsolete
  • odious
  • off
  • omitted
  • out of gas
  • over
  • paltry
  • patchy
  • pathetic
  • perished
  • phoney
  • phony
  • pleasing
  • poor
  • preferring
  • pressing
  • prizing
  • punk
  • questing
  • rare
  • relishing
  • reprehensible
  • requiring
  • resolving
  • rotten
  • rubbishy
  • sans
  • scant
  • scanty
  • scarce
  • scurrilous
  • second-rate
  • shabby
  • sham
  • shoddy
  • short
  • shy
  • sketchy
  • skimp
  • skimpy
  • sleazy
  • slender
  • slight
  • slim
  • small
  • sour
  • spare
  • sparse
  • stingy
  • stinky
  • stipulating
  • suboptimal
  • subpar
  • substandard
  • sucky
  • taking
  • terrible
  • too little too late
  • trashy
  • treasuring
  • unacceptable
  • uncommon
  • under par
  • unfulfilled
  • unsatisfactory
  • unsound
  • unspeakable
  • useless
  • valueless
  • valuing
  • vanished
  • vile
  • villainous
  • wack
  • warranting
  • welcoming
  • willing
  • wishing
  • without
  • worthless
  • wretched
  • wrong

taking

  • Junoesque
  • abiding
  • absorbing
  • accepting
  • accommodating
  • accounting
  • accrediting
  • acquiescing
  • acquiring
  • acting
  • addressing
  • admitting
  • adopting
  • adorable
  • aesthetic
  • aesthetical
  • affecting
  • agreeable
  • allowing
  • alluring
  • annihilating
  • appealing
  • appointing
  • arresting
  • asking
  • assassinating
  • assuming
  • attractive
  • bearing
  • beating
  • beauteous
  • beautiful
  • beckoning
  • begging
  • behaving
  • believing
  • besting
  • bettering
  • bewitching
  • bidding
  • biding
  • blotting out
  • blowing away
  • blowing out
  • bombing
  • bonnie
  • bonny
  • breaking
  • bringing off
  • brooking
  • bumping off
  • burying
  • butchering
  • buying
  • calling for
  • capitulating
  • capping
  • captivating
  • carrying
  • carrying off
  • carrying out
  • catching
  • challenging
  • charming
  • cherry-picking
  • chocolate-box
  • choosing
  • claiming
  • clasping
  • clenching
  • clobbering
  • clutching
  • comely
  • coming to grips with
  • commanding
  • communicative
  • concluding
  • confirming
  • conquering
  • contagious
  • containing
  • contracting
  • controlling
  • copping
  • countenancing
  • creaming
  • crediting
  • croaking
  • crushing
  • culling
  • cunning
  • cute
  • cutting down
  • dainty
  • decimating
  • deducing
  • defeating
  • delicate
  • delightful
  • demanding
  • designating
  • desirable
  • destroying
  • directing
  • dishy
  • dispatching
  • doing away with
  • doing down
  • doing for
  • doing in
  • dollish
  • drop-dead
  • drubbing
  • eclipsing
  • electing
  • elegant
  • embracing
  • enchanting
  • enclosing
  • encompassing
  • enduring
  • enfolding
  • engaging
  • engineering
  • enjoining
  • entailing
  • entering
  • entertaining
  • enthralling
  • enticing
  • espousing
  • esthetic
  • esthetical
  • euthanatizing
  • euthanizing
  • exacting
  • exceeding
  • excelling
  • executing
  • expansive
  • exquisite
  • eye-catching
  • failing
  • fair
  • fascinating
  • felling
  • fellowshiping
  • fellowshipping
  • fetching
  • fielding
  • financing
  • finessing
  • finishing
  • fitting
  • fixing
  • flamboyant
  • flashy
  • flattening
  • flawless
  • flourishing
  • foxy
  • gaining
  • garnering
  • getting
  • getting around
  • getting off
  • getting the better of
  • glamorous
  • glamourous
  • glorious
  • glossy
  • going
  • good
  • good-looking
  • goodly
  • gorgeous
  • grasping
  • gripping
  • guiding
  • hacking
  • handling
  • handpicking
  • handsome
  • hanging on to
  • harboring
  • having
  • having a grip on
  • holding
  • hot
  • housing
  • hunky
  • icing
  • inclosing
  • infectious
  • inferring
  • influencing
  • insisting
  • interesting
  • inviting
  • involving
  • jockeying
  • killing
  • killing off
  • knocking for a loop
  • knocking off
  • knocking over
  • knockout
  • lacking
  • languishing
  • laying hold of
  • licking
  • likely
  • living with
  • looker
  • lovely
  • lovesome
  • luring
  • luscious
  • magnetic
  • magnificent
  • making away with
  • managing
  • maneuvering
  • manipulating
  • marking
  • martyring
  • massacring
  • mastering
  • meeting
  • mesmeric
  • micromanaging
  • mowing
  • murdering
  • nabbing
  • naming
  • necessitating
  • needing
  • negotiating
  • neutralizing
  • nominating
  • nosing out
  • nubile
  • obtaining
  • offering
  • offing
  • okaying
  • operating
  • outdistancing
  • outdoing
  • outfighting
  • outshining
  • outstripping
  • overbearing
  • overcoming
  • overmatching
  • overpowering
  • overthrowing
  • overtopping
  • overwhelming
  • pandemic
  • panning out
  • perfect
  • performing
  • permitting
  • personable
  • photogenic
  • picking
  • picking up
  • pipping
  • playing
  • pleasant
  • pleasing
  • pocketing
  • preferring
  • prepossessing
  • preselecting
  • presentable
  • pressing
  • presuming
  • pretty
  • prettyish
  • procuring
  • provocative
  • pulchritudinous
  • pulling
  • purchasing
  • putting away
  • putting down
  • questing
  • radiant
  • ratifying
  • ravishing
  • reacting
  • rebuying
  • receiving
  • redounding
  • regulating
  • repurchasing
  • requiring
  • respecting
  • resplendent
  • responding
  • resulting
  • routing
  • rubbing out
  • running
  • sanctioning
  • scoring
  • scragging
  • seating
  • securing
  • seductive
  • seemly
  • seizing
  • selecting
  • setting
  • setting store by
  • setting store on
  • sexy
  • shellacking
  • shouldering
  • showstopping
  • showy
  • sightly
  • sinking
  • skinning
  • skunking
  • slaughtering
  • slaying
  • slick
  • smiting
  • smoking
  • snatching
  • snazzy
  • snowing under
  • snuffing
  • splashy
  • splendid
  • standing
  • standing for
  • statuesque
  • steering
  • sticking out
  • stipulating
  • stomaching
  • stopping
  • striking
  • studly
  • stunning
  • subduing
  • subjugating
  • sublime
  • succeeding
  • suffering
  • suiciding
  • superb
  • supporting
  • supposing
  • surmounting
  • surpassing
  • sustaining
  • swallowing
  • swaying
  • sweating out
  • sweeping
  • sweet
  • swinging
  • tabbing
  • tagging
  • taking effect
  • taking hold
  • taking out
  • tantalizing
  • tapping
  • teasing
  • telegenic
  • tempting
  • terminating
  • thrashing
  • tolerating
  • toothsome
  • topping
  • toughing it out
  • transcending
  • transferable
  • transmittable
  • treating
  • trimming
  • trouncing
  • trusting
  • understanding
  • unseating
  • upending
  • upsetting
  • vanquishing
  • walloping
  • wanting
  • warranting
  • wasting
  • waxing
  • weakening
  • wearing
  • welcoming
  • well-favored
  • whacking
  • whipping
  • wilting
  • winning
  • winsome
  • withering
  • working
  • worsening
  • worsting
  • zingy

paging

  • announce
  • asking
  • assembling
  • beckoning
  • beep
  • bidding
  • buzzing
  • call
  • call out
  • call the name of
  • calling
  • calling out
  • calling up
  • check
  • citing
  • commanding
  • convening
  • convoking
  • count
  • demanding
  • foliate
  • hailing
  • hunt for
  • inviting
  • invoking
  • knelling
  • mustering
  • number
  • ordering
  • paginate
  • preconize
  • requesting
  • requisitioning
  • ringing
  • seek
  • send for
  • subpoenaing
  • summon
  • summoning
  • whistling

calling upon

  • asking
  • banking on
  • begging
  • beseeching
  • besieging
  • bludging
  • cadging
  • calculating
  • claiming
  • coercing
  • commanding
  • committing
  • compelling
  • confiding
  • conjuring
  • counting
  • demanding
  • depending
  • desiring
  • enjoining
  • entreating
  • entrusting
  • exacting
  • figuring on
  • forcing
  • impetrating
  • imploring
  • importuning
  • insisting
  • intrusting
  • inviting
  • invoking
  • leaning
  • looking to
  • mooching
  • petitioning
  • praying
  • pressing
  • reckoning
  • relying
  • requesting
  • requiring
  • soliciting
  • sponging
  • standing on
  • suing
  • supplicating
  • trusting

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