Synonyms for quest
kwɛstquest

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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

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1. • Bark
   • Search
   • Seek
   • Solicit
   • Trail

Dictionary of English Synonymes(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. questnoun

   Synonyms:
   search

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1. questnoun

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

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1. List of paraphrases for "quest":

   search, pursuit, qwest, research, searching, aspiration, endeavour, recherche, attempt

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1. List of known nicknames for "Quest":

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1. Anna Louise Strong:

   To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

2. Dan Buettner:

   Life expectancy in America is about 79, we should be able to live to 92. Somewhere along the line, we're leaving 13 years on the table. So my quest is -- how do we get those extra 13 years? And how do we make those extra 13 years, good years?

3. Martin Luther King, Jr.:

   It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the philosophy of non-violence. The Negro all over the South must come to the point that he can say to his white brother: We will match your capacity to inflict suffering with our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. We will not hate you, but we will not obey your evil laws. We will soon wear you down by pure capacity to suffer.

4. Deutsche Telekom:

   100,000 gamers can generate in two minutes data that would need more than 50 years of research, sea Hero Quest.

5. James Allen Isaacs Jr.:

   I am on a quest to connect the D.O.T.S. of Truth