questioner

Other forms: questioners

A questioner is someone who asks questions, especially in an official or formal capacity. When a detective interviews a suspect, she acts as a questioner.

A questioner is also an interviewer, so if you're producing a radio piece, asking people on the street various questions, you are a questioner. An FBI agent trying to get to the bottom of a case is also a questioner, and so is someone who asks a question at a public event, like a lecture. You are also a questioner if you are having doubts about something, especially religious tenets — you're questioning them.

Definitions of questioner

1. noun

   someone who asks a question
   synonyms: asker, enquirer, inquirer, querier

   types:

   cross-examiner, cross-questioner

   someone who questions a witness carefully (especially about testimony given earlier)

   examiner, quizzer, tester

   someone who administers a test to determine your qualifications

   inquisitor, interrogator

   a questioner who is excessively harsh

   interviewer

   a person who conducts an interview

   canvasser, headcounter, poll taker, pollster

   someone who conducts surveys of public opinion

   type of:

   speaker, talker, utterer, verbaliser, verbalizer

   someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous)