leading question

English

Noun

leading question (plural leading questions)

1. A question that suggests the answer or that contains the information for which the examiner is looking.
   • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 214:

     He alluded constantly to Europe, to the people I was supposed to know there - putting leading questions as to my acquaintances in the sepulchral city, and so on.

Translations

suggestive interrogation

• Bulgarian: насочващ въпрос m (nasočvašt vǎpros)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 誘導性問題／诱导性问题 (yòudǎoxìng wèntí), 誘導性詢問／诱导性询问 (yòudǎoxìng xúnwèn), 引導性問題／引导性问题 (yǐndǎoxìng wèntí)

• Finnish: johdatteleva kysymys
• French: question orientée f, question tendancieuse f, question suggestive f
• German: Suggestivfrage (de) f
• Japanese: 誘導尋問 (ゆうどうじんもん, yūdō jinmon)
• Maori: pawa, ui kukume
• Polish: pytanie sugestywne n
• Russian: наводя́щий вопро́с m (navodjáščij voprós)
• Swedish: ledande fråga c

See also

• wife-beating question (loaded question)