QUESTS Synonyms: 75 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

plural of quest

as in searches

an act or process of looking carefully or thoroughly for someone or something the Holy Grail was the object of a mystical quest by the knights of the Round Table

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verb

present tense third-person singular of quest

as in demands

to ask for (something) earnestly or with authority I respectfully quest your assistance in this matter

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as in pursues

to go in search of many daydreamers trekked to California questing riches during the great gold rush of 1849

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as in requests

to make a request for please wait until the lecturer specifically quests comments from the audience before chiming in

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Recent Examples of quests

Noun

The narrative features, however, such as 2010’s My Joy or 2017’s A Gentle Creature, were rich, rambling, surreal, maximalist, following characters on absurd quests through cross sections of bureaucracy and society. —

Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 24 Mar. 2026 With 30+ hours of adventure and over 90 plus quests, there’s plenty to uncover both above (and beneath) the city! —

Jennifer Maas, Variety, 24 Mar. 2026 The Sentinel has also been stymied in multiple quests for public information. —

Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 Mar. 2026 Ours are quests that lead to questions rather than conquests – journeys that gather instead of conquer. —

Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 16 Mar. 2026 Sear also completed side quests, lending his voice to Grand Theft Auto III and making a cameo on Big Pun’s 2000 Yeeeah Baby album intro. —

Michael Saponara, Billboard, 11 Mar. 2026 The murders themselves come across as side quests in a video game, complete with cheat codes and drug references. —

Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2026 The series primarily concerns Flint's efforts to wrangle his crew and protect the lawlessness of the island New Providence, as well as quests to attain treasure across the high seas. —

Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Feb. 2026 Focusing only on gains also says nothing about the nature of the journeys taken, the process travelers use to convert furtive motion into self-reinvention, and the places that assist or block these quests. —

Literary Hub, 18 Feb. 2026

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But after the Higgs discovery, the particle physics headlines went quiet again, with searches for other hypothesized particles yielding the sigh-inducing null result.

— Mariangela Lisanti, Twin Cities, 27 Mar. 2026
Researchers calculated the average number of monthly searches per state and adjusted the data per 100,000 residents.

— Marley Malenfant, Austin American Statesman, 27 Mar. 2026