Captious definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary CAPTIOUS, a. 1. Disposed to find fault, or raise objections; apt ... language, it is said, apt to catch at; as a captious man. 2. Fitted to catch or ensnare; insidious; as a captious question. 3. Proceeding from a caviling disposition; as a captious objection or criticism. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adj 1: tending to find and call attention to faults; "a captious pedant"; "an excessively demanding and faultfinding tutor" [syn: captious, ...
... criticality noun • critically adverb • criticalness noun Synonyms: critical, hypercritical, faultfinding, captious, carping, censorious mean inclined to look for and point out ... faultfinding implies a querulous or exacting temperament < a faultfinding reviewer >. captious suggests a readiness to detect trivial faults or raise objections on trivial grounds < a captious critic >. carping implies an ill-natured or perverse picking of ... Bp. Stillingfleet. 4. Inclined to criticise or find fault; fastidious; captious; censorious; exacting. O gentle lady, do not put me to ... Synonyms a. 1. Exact, nice, accurate. 2. Censorious, carping, cavilling, captious. 3. Determining, decisive, crucial, turning, important. 4. Dangerous, hazardous, imminent ... alarming, allegorizing, annotative, appreciative, arduous, attentive, bad, basic, belittling, brutal, captious, carping, caviling, censorious, charged, choicy, choosy, clamorous, clarifying, climacteric, ...
... a dog.] Having the qualities of a surly dog; snarling; captious; surly; currish; austere. Cynic spasm, a kind of convulsion, in ... cynical, misanthropic, misanthropical] Merriam Webster's adjective Date: 1542 1. captious, peevish 2. having or showing the attitude or temper of ... Hound.] 1. Having the qualities of a surly dog; snarling; captious; currish. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not ... Dictionary of English Synonyms a. 1. Carping, censorious, satirical, sarcastic, captious, snarling, snappish, waspish, pettish, petulant, fretful, peevish, touchy, testy, crusty ... misanthropic. Moby Thesaurus Cassandra-like, Cassandran, Cassandrian, Rabelaisian, Timonistic, antisocial, captious, carping, caustic, caviling, critical, defeatist, dismal, downbeat, dry, faultfinding, gloomy ...
... Webster's 1828 Dictionary CAVIL, v.i. 1. To raise captious and frivolous objections; to find fault without good reason; followed ... fr. cavilla bantering jests, sophistry: cf. OF. caviller.] To raise captious and frivolous objections; to find fault without good reason. You ... Milton. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Cavil Cav"il, n. A captious or frivolous objection. All the cavils of prejudice and unbelief ... Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms n. 1. Frivolous objection, captious criticism, unwarranted censure, carping, censoriousness, wilful censure, objection for objection ...
... professor of philosophy; as the sophists of Greece. 2. A captious or fallacious reasoner. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1 ... their adroit subtle and allegedly often specious reasoning 3. a captious or fallacious reasoner Oxford Reference Dictionary n. 1 one who ... Sophists. --Liddell & Scott. 2. Hence, an impostor in argument; a captious or fallacious reasoner. Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms n. Quibbler, captious reasoner, fallacious reasoner, artful logician. Moby Thesaurus Jesuit, casuist, choplogic ...
... art or artistic performances 2. one given to harsh or captious judgment II. noun Etymology: Greek kritik? art of the critic ... the ``Dunciad.'' --Macaulay. 2. One who passes a rigorous or captious judgment; one who censures or finds fault; a harsh examiner ... authoress, authority, belittler, belletrist, bibliographer, bon vivant, book reviewer, buff, captious, captious critic, carper, carping, caviler, caviling, censor, censorious, censurer, cicerone, clarifier ...
Captiously definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary CAPTIOUSLY, adv. In a captious manner; with an inclination or intention to object, or censure. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adv 1: in a captious, carping manner; "he was captiously pedantic" Merriam Webster's adverb see captious Webster's 1913 Dictionary Captiously Cap"tious*ly, adv. In a captious manner.
... fr. cavilla bantering jests, sophistry: cf. OF. caviller.] To raise captious and frivolous objections; to find fault without good reason. You ... a. Disposed to cavil; finding fault without good reason. See Captious. His depreciatory and caviling criticism. --Lewis. Moby Thesaurus captious, carping, censorious, contrary, critic, demanding, exacting, faultfinding, finicky, fussy, hairsplitting ...
... a dog.] Having the qualities of a surly dog; snarling; captious; surly; currish; austere. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1 ... essence lies in self-control and independence 2. a faultfinding captious critic; especially one who believes that human conduct is motivated ... Hound.] 1. Having the qualities of a surly dog; snarling; captious; currish. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not ...