inquirer

[ in-kwahyuhr-er ]

noun

1. a person who asks a question or seeks to learn about something, often someone whose character it is to do so:

   The answer to any question is available within a second or two on the Internet, but it's up to the inquirer to evaluate the validity of the answer.

   Any inquirer into scientific truth must be absolutely confident that the whole world makes a certain kind of sense.

Word History and Origins

Origin of inquirer¹

inquire ( def ) + -er ¹( def )

Example Sentences

In an interview with The Philadelphia Inquirer, her boyfriend, Jason Anderson, said Craig-Lewis was “all consumed” by her job.

From The Daily Beast

“I spent a lifetime looking for a father,” he told The Philadelphia Inquirer in 1986.

From The Daily Beast

In an email to the Philadelphia Inquirer, Bucholz described the party as focused on “pragmatism.”

From The Daily Beast

Jayson, how did you move to ESPN from The Philadelphia Inquirer?

From The Daily Beast

So I did a few dozen shows, though I continued to work at the Inquirer until the end of the 1999 season.

From The Daily Beast

We do not read of any remarkable philosophical inquirer until Thales arose, the first of the Ionian school.

From Project Gutenberg

The earnest, chummy attitude of the inquirer made Molly feel at ease, and also anxious to please.

From Project Gutenberg

The reverend gentleman gave his rustic inquirer a kick, adding, ‘Did you feel that?’

From Project Gutenberg

There is in all both a suppressio veri and a suggestio falsi, which makes the honest inquirer almost entirely reject their books.

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Nor do we act thus, reluctantly, for we believe that every honest inquirer will thank us for the introduction.

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