Crossword clues for quizzical
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quizzical \Quiz"zic*al\ (kw[i^]z"z[i^]*kal), a. Relating to quizzing; given to quizzing; of the nature of a quiz; farcical; sportive. [1913 Webster] -- Quiz"zic*al*ly, adv.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1789, from quiz "odd or eccentric person" (1782), of unknown origin (see quiz (n.)) + -ical. Related: Quizzically.
Wiktionary
a. 1 questioning or suggesting puzzlement. 2 strange or eccentric.
WordNet
adj. playfully vexing (especially by ridicule); "his face wore a somewhat quizzical almost impertinent air"- Lawrence Durrell [syn: mocking, teasing]
perplexed (as if being expected to know something that you do not know); "he had a quizzical expression" [syn: questioning]
Usage examples of "quizzical".
He had looked out at the quizzical faces, listened to the frantic scrawling of the panicking students, and realized that with a mind that ran and tripped and hurled itself down the corridors of theory in anarchic fashion, he could learn himself, in haphazard lurches, but he could not impart the understanding he so loved.
The noctambulo had little ability, so far as Joseph could detect, to register alterations in facial expression, and yet the glint in its huge eyes seemed somehow harder now, and it held its beak tightly closed instead of drooping ajar as it usually did, and the tapering head appeared to be tilted now at an odd quizzical angle.
In addition to the Chanel she was wearing a white silk dress and that quizzical, half-amused smile that made most of the other officers turn mental cartwheels and handsprings but served only to irritate me.
Jon shot a quizzical look at Nimisha and then at Caleb, who shook his head.
The floor, first brushed then scrubbed, had finally been polished brightly enough for Arrhae to see her quizzical face reflecting back from its tiled surface.
Sean mused, slyly deepening the faint trace of Irish lilt in his voice and lifting his left eyebrow in an amused, quizzical way.
The elf shot him a quizzical demand, but the shaman-to-be ignored her.
He gave her a quizzical look, almost sad but not quite because the overhead lights were doing odd things to his features, elongating them as if they were made of tallow.
They drank the cold hard drink appreciatively, Leiter with a faintly quizzical expression on his hawk-like face.
Egon Karlstad stood at Grant's door, a quizzical little hint of a smile on his pale face.
She gave him a moment to respond, but he was now regarding her with the same sharply quizzical look he'd given Ruby Bee--who was not pleased with the remark about getting mugged or lost.
He pulled his head back and whined again, then perked his ears in a quizzical expression.
Sweeping eyebrows made of rubylike stones gave the mask a faintly quizzical expression.
A few heads exchanged quizzical looks as the group formed a loose gaggle between the two benches, Hayes tapped a rapid command into the touchboard of a flatscreen panel hanging on an arm at one end of the left-side bench.
Gilt, one hand in the pocket of a beautiful smoking jacket, gave him a quizzical look.