What does inquiring mean?
Inquiring means present participle and gerund of inquire.
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/ɪnˈkwaɪɹɪŋ/ · verb
present participle and gerund of inquire.
What need you trouble with vain inquirings / The surly gods or your own ignorant spirit?
[…] these are the results of Herodotus' factual inquirings, the accurate information, the right account, which he acquired about some matters of importance to himself and to his audience and about which conflicting accounts have been given.
When pressed for an explanation, he was inclined to use the word "Symbolic" in a manner extremely confusing to the inquiring lay mind.
Use inquiring when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Inquiring means present participle and gerund of inquire.
Common synonyms include inquisitive, probing, questioning, searching.
Possible antonyms include uninquiring, uninquisitive.
What need you trouble with vain inquirings / The surly gods or your own ignorant spirit?
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