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question. 6 in question. a under discussion or consideration:
The person in question never worked for this company. b
questionable, debatable, at issue, in doubt, doubtful, open to
debate: Her honesty was never in question. 7 out of the
question. unthinkable, impossible, absurd, ridiculous,
preposterous, inconceivable, beyond consideration,
insupportable: An increase in salary at this time is out of the
question. 8 without question. See 4, above.
--v. 9 ask, examine, interrogate, query, interview, sound out,
quiz, Colloq pump, grill, Slang give (someone) the third degree:
He was questioned for six hours as to his whereabouts. 10 call
in or into question, doubt, query, mistrust, distrust, cast
doubt upon, dispute, suspect: Investigators have long
questioned the relationship between the banks and the drug
barons.
questionable
adj. doubtful, dubious, debatable, moot, disputable,
borderline, suspect, suspicious, shady; open to question, in
question, in dispute, problematic(al), uncertain, arguable,
unsure, unreliable, ambiguous: The evidence shows that the
defendant engaged in questionable banking practices while a
director of Offshore Ltd. The advantages of quick divorce are
questionable.
queue n. 1 line, row, file, column, string, train, cortege or
cortŠge, retinue, procession, succession, chain, concatenation,
series, order, cordon, Brit tailback, Colloq Brit crocodile,
Military picket: There were dozens of people in the queue in
front of me. 2 pigtail, braid, plait; tail, pony-tail: Not
long ago, Chinese men wore their hair in a queue.
--v. 3 Often, queue up. line up, get in or into or form a line
or queue or file, get into or in line, Military fall in: All he
remembers about the war is that everyone had to queue up for
everything and wait.
quibble v. 1 equivocate, split hairs, evade, be evasive, palter, chop
logic, bandy words, cavil, pettifog, Colloq nit-pick: While
people continued to be kept in slavery, the politicians quibbled
over the difference between 'liberty' and 'freedom'.