Dictionary Definition
quizzical adj
1 playfully vexing (especially by ridicule); "his
face wore a somewhat quizzical almost impertinent air"- Lawrence
Durrell [syn: mocking,
teasing]
2 perplexed (as if being expected to know
something that you do not know); "he had a quizzical expression"
[syn: questioning]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Adjective
- Questioning or suggesting puzzlement.
- Strange or eccentric.
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
absurd,
agape, agog, all agog, amusing, bantering, bizarre, booing, burning with curiosity,
catcalling, catechistic, chaffing, consumed with
curiosity, curious,
derisive, derisory, disbelieving, droll, eccentric, fleering, flippant, fooling, funny, ghoulish, gossipy, grinning, hilarious, hissing, hooting, humorous, incongruous, inquiring, inquisitional, inquisitive, inquisitorial, interested, interrogational,
interrogative,
interrogatory,
itchy, jeering, jollying, joshing, kidding, laughable, leering, ludicrous, mocking, morbid, morbidly curious,
odd, open-eyed, openmouthed, overcurious, panning, priceless, probing, prurient, puzzled, quaint, queer, querying, questioning, quizzing, ragging, railing, rallying, razzing, rich, ridiculing, ridiculous, risible, roasting, scoffing, scopophiliac, screaming, searching, skeptical, smart, smart-alecky, smart-ass,
smirking, sneering, snickering, sniggering, snorting, supercurious, taunting, teasing, twitting, unbelieving, voyeuristic, whimsical, witty