IN QUESTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does in question mean? 

• IN QUESTION (adjective)
  The adjective IN QUESTION has 1 sense:

1. open to doubt or suspicion

  Familiarity information: IN QUESTION used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IN QUESTION (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Open to doubt or suspicion

Synonyms:

doubtful; dubious; dubitable; in question

Context example:

it was more than dubitable whether the friend was as influential as she thought

Similar:

questionable (subject to question)

 Context examples 

"Well, what is it?" he demanded, turning squarely on the girl in question.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

This I delivered in a firm tone, like a person who was jealous lest his courage should be called in question.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

‘Sir,’ he says, ‘in answer to your advertisement of to-day’s date, I beg to inform you that I know the young lady in question very well.’

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But our doubts will very soon be solved, for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Do you know the Giantess in question, Daisy?” inquired Steerforth.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

During the last third of November, you will switch your attention back to the romantic relationship in question.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

During surgery, a drop of water on the pen pulls molecules from the tissue in question.

(New Invention Detects Cancer in Seconds, VOA/Elizabeth Lee)

The likelihood that an individual with a negative test result is truly unaffected and/or does not have the particular gene mutation in question.

(Negative Predictive Value of Diagnostic Test, NCI Dictionary)

A clinical research protocol generally referred to as a well-controlled and pivotal trial that aims to prove the mechanism of action of the new intervention in question.

(Phase IIb Trial, NCI Thesaurus)

The individual is able to describe the object in question, but cannot provide the name.

(Anomia, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)