interrogative
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Is interrogative a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (grammar) Asking or denoting a question.Examples: "an interrogative phrase"; "an interrogative pronoun"; "The regular place of the interrogative word, of whatever kind, is at the beginning of the sentence, or as near it as possible."
noun (English)
1. (grammar) A word (pronoun, pronominal adjective, or adverb) implying interrogation, or used for asking a question: why, who, when, etc.
2. (typography, archaic) Synonym of question mark ⟨?⟩.Examples: "There be five manner of points and divisions most used among cunning men; the which if they be well used, make the sentence very light and easy to be understood, both to the reader and hearer: and they be these, virgil,—come,—parenthesis,—plain point,—interrogative."; "Whoever introduced the several points, it seems that a full-point, a point called come, answering to our colon-point, a point called virgil answering to our comma-point, the parenthesis-points and interrogative-point, were used at the close of the fourteenth, or beginning of the fifteenth century."Synonyms: question mark, question markarchaic
3. (rare) A question; an interrogation.Examples: ""Who are you, sir, and what is your business?" demanded the Marquis... "That is a fair interrogative, my lord," answered Dalgetty."rare
Definition source: Wiktionary