Seeking
//ˈsiː.kɪŋ// adj, noun, verb
adj, noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The act of one who seeks; a search or quest to find something.
"[…] the Company contemplated having their works at Esher—for they have had long and anxious seekings for a location—to store our gun-cotton in unlimited quantity […]"
- 2 an attempt to acquire or gain something wordnet
- 3 the act of searching for something wordnet
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of seek form-of, gerund, participle, present
"While De Anza was exploring the Bay of San Francisco, seeking a site for the presidio, the American colonists on the eastern seaboard, three thousand miles away, were celebrating the signing of the Declaration of Independence."
Adjective
- 1 That seeks something specified. in-compounds, not-comparable
Example
More examples"I am seeking the path to the end of the universe."
Etymology
From seek + -ing.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.