INQUIRED Antonyms

• confidently declared to be so

• having been established or made firm or received the rite of confirmation

• of persons; not subject to change

• made known or openly avowed

• declared as fact; explicitly stated

• made known (especially something secret or concealed)

• declared as fact; explicitly stated

• a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation

• a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem

• the speech act of replying to a question

• the principal pleading by the defendant in response to plaintiff's complaint; in criminal law it consists of the defendant's plea of `guilty' or `not guilty' (or nolo contendere); in civil law it must contain denials of all allegations in the plaintiff's complaint that the defendant hopes to controvert and it can contain affirmative defenses or counterclaims

• a nonverbal reaction

• react verbally

• respond to a signal

• give the correct answer or solution to

• understand the meaning of

• give a defence or refutation of (a charge) or in (an argument)

• be liable or accountable

• be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity

• match or correspond

• be satisfactory for; meet the requirements of or serve the purpose of

• react to a stimulus or command

• make plain and comprehensible

• define

• serve as a reason or cause or justification of

• a remark that calls attention to something or someone

• a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage

• an official recognition of merit

• make reference to

• make mention of

• commend

• show a response or a reaction to something

• react verbally

• respond favorably or as hoped