seeking

The act of one who seeks; a search or quest to find something.

Adjective

  1. That seeks something specified.

Origin

Etymology tree English seek English -ing English seeking From seek + -ing.

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 […] - 1873, Van Nostrand's Eclectic Engineering Magazine,...

Forms

seekings

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of seek
    • 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...

Derived

careseeking gainseeking heat-seeking homeseeking jobseeking officeseeking profitseeking rent-seeking seekingly self-seeking thrillseeking unseeking