interrogative
adjective
of, relating to, or conveying a question.
interrogatives
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pluralof interrogative.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Speaking in a deadpan monotone, he is prone to responding to interrogatives with a curt “affirmative” or “negative” and saying things like “normal is for normal people.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2020
Piqued by the exclusion, he circulates a public letter, in which his resentments are masked by interrogatives and faux naïveté:
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 3, 2017
My interrogatives were intended to arouse him from the reverie into which he had fallen.
From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Mayne Reid
Even in such stylistic devices as introducing the interrogatives by giving the form, following it with "to which one responds," and then listing a number of characteristic answers; Collado is faithful to the Introductiones.
From Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language by Richard L. Spear
The extended forms of the pronouns given in the above table are not much used as separate words, except in answer to interrogatives, or assertively.
From The Wiradyuri and Other Languages of New South Wales by R. H. (Robert Hamilton) Mathews
