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Antonyms for quest
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Princeton's WordNet2.8 / 5 votes

  1. pursuit, pursuance, questnoun

    a search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria

    "the pursuit of love"; "life is more than the pursuance of fame"; "a quest for wealth"

    Synonyms:
    prosecution, sideline, pursuance, following, pastime, pursual, spare-time activity, avocation, hobby, chase, by-line, pursuit, interest, seeking

  2. quest, seekingverb

    the act of searching for something

    "a quest for diamonds"

    Synonyms:
    seeking, pursuance, pursuit

  3. questverb

    make a search (for)

    "Things that die with their eyes open and questing"; "The animal came questing through the forest"

    Synonyms:
    request, call for, bay, bespeak

  4. questverb

    search the trail of (game)

    "The dog went off and quested"

    Synonyms:
    request, call for, bay, bespeak

  5. bay, questverb

    bark with prolonged noises, of dogs

    Synonyms:
    request, call for, bay, bespeak

  6. questverb

    seek alms, as for religious purposes

    Synonyms:
    request, call for, bay, bespeak

  7. request, bespeak, call for, questverb

    express the need or desire for; ask for

    "She requested an extra bed in her room"; "She called for room service"

    Synonyms:
    call for, demand, bespeak, indicate, betoken, gather up, need, postulate, involve, point, bay, require, pick up, necessitate, take, collect, ask, signal, request, invite

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words3.0 / 2 votes

  1. questnoun

    Synonyms:
    search, seeking, pursuit, request, desire, solicitation, inquiry

Editors Contribution5.0 / 1 vote

  1. short

    on a quest you don't just stay put in your back yard ,you go out of your "comfort zone"

    off on an epic quest to find some treasure

    Submitted by anonymous on November 17, 2019  

How to use quest in a sentence?

  1. Mike Casteel:

    We're on a quest to make as much of that renewable natural gas as we can.

  2. Amesh Adalja:

    It would be great if Quest and LabCorp could do it. It'd be great if there were kits that people could put in sexually transmitted infection clinics to definitively diagnose, but I don't think right now you're hampering the public health response, just because there's no other orthopoxvirus circulating.

  3. AiR:

    I was living in pleasure... Till I stumbled upon some peace. And then my Master questioned... And a little did he tease: Are you just living to die? Or will you go on a quest to find out ‘Who am I?’

  4. Fox News:

    A Killer by Design: Murders, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal.

  5. Sam Keen:

    To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions.

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