Quizzical

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Suggesting puzzlement; questioning.
  • adj. Teasing; mocking: "His face wore a somewhat quizzical almost impertinent air” ( Lawrence Durrell).
  • adj. Eccentric; odd.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Questioning or suggesting puzzlement.
  • adj. Strange or eccentric.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Relating to quizzing; given to quizzing; of the nature of a quiz; farcical; sportive.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Characteristic of a quiz; bantering; teasing; shy; queer: as, a quizzical look or remark.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. perplexed (as if being expected to know something that you do not know)
  • adj. playfully vexing (especially by ridicule)
  • Equivalent
    perplexed    playful   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    farcical    sportive    laughable    jesting   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    wry    disapprove    bemused    regretful    ironical    skeptical    ironic    sheepish    disdainful    supercilious