What is another word for captious?
1269 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ kˈapʃəs], [ kˈapʃəs], [ k_ˈa_p_ʃ_ə_s]
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Similar words for captious:
- all (adjective)
- argumentative (adjective)
- cantankerous (adjective)
- censorious (adjective)
- crabby (adjective)
- crabby/crabbed (adjective)
- critical (adjective)
- cross (adjective)
- crusty (adjective)
- disputatious (adjective)
- fastidious (adjective)
- fault-finding (adjective)
- faultfinding (adjective)
- fretful (adjective)
- hypocritical (adjective)
- irritable (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- overcritical (adjective)
- peevish (adjective)
- petulant (adjective)
- querulous (adjective)
- quibbling (adjective)
- sarcastic (adjective)
- sly (adjective)
- specious (adjective)
- squeamish (adjective)
- testy (adjective)
- touchy (adjective)
- other relevant words (noun)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Captious:
adj.
• all (adjective) • argumentative (adjective) • cantankerous (adjective)- dis agreeable,
- most bearish,
- bad tempered,
- illhumored,
- most vinegary,
- ill-humored,
- most ill-humored,
- more ill-humored,
- more vinegarish,
- ill humored,
- more bearish,
- more ill humored,
- more vinegary,
- most ill humored,
- illnatured,
- huffy,
- ill natured,
- badtempered,
- most illhumored,
- dis-agreeable,
- obstinate,
- more illhumored,
- most vinegarish,
- morose.
- more condemnatory,
- most condemning,
- more cavillous,
- more disapproving,
- most reproaching,
- dis-approving,
- most denouncing,
- most caviling,
- most chiding,
- more culpatory,
- more reprehending,
- more reproaching,
- most condemnatory,
- most culpatory,
- more caviling,
- dis approving,
- more denouncing,
- more chiding,
- most disapproving,
- more condemning,
- hyper-critical,
- most cavillous,
- most reprehending,
- hyper critical.
- more difficult,
- mis-anthropic,
- gloomy,
- most nasty tempered,
- most nastytempered,
- more nasty tempered,
- mis anthropic,
- nastytempered,
- splenetic,
- most nasty-tempered,
- un sociable,
- more splenetic,
- most splenetic,
- most crabbed,
- nasty tempered,
- more nasty-tempered,
- illtempered,
- un-sociable,
- ill tempered,
- more nastytempered.
- pedantic,
- nit-picking,
- calumniatory,
- Fault-finding,
- severe,
- finicky,
- judgmental,
- harsh,
- Exceptive,
- reproachful.
- fussbudgety,
- finical,
- Stickling,
- overnice,
- easily disgusted,
- overdelicate,
- nit-picky,
- over-nice,
- hard to please.
- in-sincerest,
- smoothspoken,
- hypo critical,
- selfrighteous,
- self righteous,
- left handed,
- in sincerer,
- jivier,
- most dissembling,
- pietistic,
- jiviest,
- most smooth spoken,
- two faced,
- smooth spoken,
- most deluding,
- twofaced,
- in-sincerer,
- lefthanded,
- more smoothspoken,
- un-reliable,
- more moralistic,
- more deluding,
- most smoothspoken,
- more dissembling,
- most smooth-spoken,
- most feigning,
- in sincerest,
- feigning,
- in sincere,
- smoothtongued,
- more feigning,
- most moralistic,
- in-sincere,
- hypo-critical,
- more smooth spoken,
- doubledealing,
- un-natural,
- more smooth-spoken,
- smooth tongued,
- un reliable.
- pettish,
- Chuffy,
- pharisaical,
- cantankerous,
- sophistical,
- waspy,
- peevish,
- nitpicking,
- Mumpish,
- fastidious,
- moralistic,
- sneaking,
- censorious,
- grousing,
- sly,
- weisenheiming,
- hypersensitive,
- out-of-sorts,
- Double dealing,
- specious,
- bearish,
- apparently right,
- smooth-spoken,
- smart alecky,
- vinegarish,
- touchy,
- vinegary,
- petulant,
- wrecker,
- sarcastic,
- Cavillous,
- picky,
- bundle of nerves,
- testy,
- Perturbable,
- critical,
- Qualmish,
- scoffing,
- hypocritical,
- querulous,
- cross,
- up set,
- squeamish,
- condemnatory,
- casuistic,
- out of humor,
- jivey,
- crusty,
- quibbling,
- nasty-tempered,
- Culpatory.
- Fretting,
- waspiest,
- waspier,
- more out-of-sorts,
- more cussed,
- more out of sorts,
- ogrest,
- most cussed,
- most growling,
- most grousing,
- most out of sorts,
- more grousing,
- ogrer,
- most out-of-sorts,
- most fretting,
- more fretting,
- most whining,
- more whining,
- more growling.
- whinier,
- grumbling,
- whiny,
- un-gracious,
- dis-pleased,
- up-tight,
- most crybaby,
- whiniest,
- most pouting,
- un gracious,
- more pouting,
- up tight,
- dis pleased,
- more crybaby.
- dis-respectful,
- dis illusioned,
- smartalecky,
- most twitting,
- more taunting,
- most needling,
- dis-illusioned,
- most weisenheiming,
- more weisenheiming,
- most ironical,
- mordant,
- more twitting,
- most chaffing,
- more chaffing,
- needling,
- more needling,
- most taunting,
- dis respectful.
- more conniving,
- dis-honorable,
- more plotting,
- under-hand,
- de-signing,
- dis-honest,
- de signing,
- un-scrupulous,
- most conniving,
- most bluffing,
- dis honest,
- more bluffing,
- un scrupulous,
- most plotting,
- under hand,
- impish,
- dis honorable.
- most beguiling,
- in accurate,
- in correct,
- un-sound,
- more casuistic,
- more sophistical,
- un-sounder,
- un-soundest,
- un truest,
- un-truest,
- un sound,
- un-truer,
- most casuistic,
- un truer,
- un sounder,
- most sophistical.
- sick to ones stomach,
- sick stomach,
- sick to stomach,
- sick one's stomach,
- dis-gusted,
- sick ones stomach,
- dis gusted,
- sick to one's stomach,
- un settled,
- strait laced,
- more qualmish,
- sick to one stomach,
- up-set,
- un-settled,
- sick one stomach,
- vertiginous,
- most qualmish.
- hyper-sensitive,
- un predictable,
- bundle nerves,
- more hypersensitive,
- pre-carious,
- oversensitive,
- un-safer,
- over-sensitive,
- un-predictable,
- hyper sensitive,
- un safer,
- wired up,
- un-safe,
- most hypersensitive,
- most perturbable,
- most oversensitive,
- more oversensitive,
- un safe,
- un safest,
- more perturbable,
- pre carious,
- un-safest,
- over sensitive.
n.
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- praise.
- damning,
- pungent,
- faultfinding,
- cheap,
- snidely,
- derogatory,
- withering,
- fretful,
- pejorative,
- deprecating,
- disparaging,
- pointed,
- vitriol,
- acidulous,
- scathing,
- uncomplimentary,
- fractious,
- astringent,
- caviling,
- barbed,
- sniffy,
- snide,
- hard-hitting,
- venomous,
- irritable,
- ill,
- disapproving,
- critically,
- pointedly,
- aloof,
- complaining,
- hypercritical,
- carping.
Other synonyms:
• Other relevant words:- allergic,
- marvellous,
- intersect,
- meretricious,
- rumble,
- arguing,
- scratchy,
- peckish,
- knifelike,
- type,
- low-spirited,
- crusted,
- affluent,
- drab,
- carving,
- unawares,
- defamatory,
- flakey,
- sneering,
- idle,
- admonitory,
- bitterness,
- stark,
- poorly,
- frizzy,
- rough,
- specific,
- teetotal,
- minor,
- hybridize,
- freaky,
- bloody-minded,
- acidify,
- ticklish,
- claim,
- hybridization,
- heavy,
- raffish,
- blistering,
- back breaker,
- divisive,
- wailful,
- special,
- competition,
- short-circuit,
- glum,
- dashing,
- poor,
- wet,
- imitation,
- chintzy,
- scant,
- acuate,
- jesuitical,
- ladened,
- inimical,
- sulfuric acid,
- supercilious,
- crisscross,
- span,
- dissemble,
- changeful,
- nettlesome,
- burred,
- ailment,
- shortstop,
- academic,
- down in the mouth,
- crafty,
- slip,
- trashy,
- damnatory,
- dangerous,
- penetrative,
- acute,
- imperious,
- crummy,
- jittery,
- barbellate,
- punic,
- libelous,
- flaky,
- zen,
- window pane,
- belittled,
- notional,
- tiff,
- off-key,
- superciliously,
- persnickety,
- dot,
- sick,
- finespun,
- secondary,
- admonishing,
- glooming,
- frizzly,
- implike,
- prideful,
- guileful,
- take,
- newspaper clipping,
- demand,
- spiritualist,
- fictitious,
- raw,
- nappy,
- ominous,
- despiteful,
- shamble,
- busy,
- inadequate,
- briery,
- devastating,
- toxicant,
- brusk,
- uptight,
- litigious,
- hypersensitized,
- motiveless,
- outlandish,
- make,
- dispirited,
- piddle,
- pane,
- courteous,
- pretending,
- dark,
- lightheaded,
- dyslogistic,
- low,
- dingy,
- absurd,
- flyblown,
- belittling,
- traitorously,
- minuscule,
- crocked,
- precise,
- briary,
- natty,
- keen,
- far-out,
- disconnected,
- taunting,
- annihilative,
- pretended,
- deceitful,
- pernicious,
- crown of thorns,
- squabble,
- bilk,
- fuddled,
- pixilated,
- encrusted,
- bitingly,
- pestered,
- dismal,
- high-pressure,
- grand,
- splenic,
- bootless,
- puzzling,
- faithlessly,
- spiny,
- cussed,
- rattling,
- sensitized,
- lowering,
- fidgety,
- acetose,
- grievous,
- vituperation,
- sanctimonious,
- insulting,
- treacherously,
- impostor,
- tight,
- trifle away,
- smutty,
- mistaken,
- elusive,
- flash,
- press clipping,
- edged,
- gibelike,
- antic,
- fictive,
- tippy,
- bizarre,
- pietistical,
- junior-grade,
- airheaded,
- quirky,
- planetary,
- needlelike,
- slopped,
- assumed,
- sluttish,
- sneeringly,
- depraved,
- tart,
- merry,
- prissy,
- transverse,
- inauspicious,
- spiffy,
- get across,
- wonderful,
- frustrate,
- spasmodic,
- spoil,
- film editing,
- vindictive,
- explosive,
- character,
- bicker,
- erosive,
- reverse,
- loose,
- interrupted,
- piddle away,
- clear-cut,
- bum,
- dizzy,
- easy,
- brisk,
- offbeat,
- denigratory,
- derogative,
- hostile,
- itchy,
- put on,
- conscientious,
- strict,
- hybridizing,
- deprecative,
- grotesque,
- downcast,
- piddling,
- exigent,
- sorry,
- liverish,
- phoney,
- cockeyed,
- interbreeding,
- depreciatory,
- blue,
- chatoyant,
- fiddling,
- ungracious,
- grumble,
- deprecatory,
- complaint,
- unstable,
- get over,
- loud,
- distinct,
- rancid,
- pseudo,
- tartness,
- wealthy,
- atrabilious,
- ironical,
- awful,
- detail,
- loony toons,
- rakish,
- crossing,
- flighty,
- astute,
- laden,
- sluggish,
- sulphurous,
- quicksilver,
- myopic,
- lancinate,
- spat,
- mordacious,
- pocket-size,
- harassed,
- plastered,
- spanking,
- delicate,
- corrosive,
- acetous,
- upset,
- oddball,
- unprovoked,
- scoff,
- gimcrack,
- pseud,
- terrible,
- nonsensical,
- outre,
- calumnious,
- cruddy,
- jejune,
- glossy,
- small-scale,
- dose,
- annoyed,
- shortly,
- techy,
- unfounded,
- bawling,
- contestation,
- unavowed,
- crustlike,
- ridiculous,
- spartan,
- sensible,
- eloquent,
- uncertain,
- obdurate,
- perfidious,
- jumpy,
- gruff,
- light,
- transversal,
- spooky,
- sloshed,
- styptic,
- refractory,
- strain,
- imaginary,
- shrill,
- besotted,
- whiney,
- sourness,
- self-righteous,
- impulsive,
- disputative,
- precipitous,
- harried,
- unsympathetic,
- medium,
- featherbrained,
- searching,
- marvelous,
- rumbling,
- combative,
- tricksy,
- crossbreed,
- wandering,
- ferment,
- atrophy,
- vituperative,
- knockout,
- negligible,
- lowly,
- gilded,
- evil,
- disturbed,
- acidulent,
- raring,
- nervous,
- acidulate,
- wry,
- ugly,
- queer,
- denigrating,
- faker,
- dawdling,
- dalliance,
- woozy,
- livery,
- downhearted,
- turn,
- nipping,
- nervy,
- fibbing,
- cut through,
- wavy-grained,
- particular proposition,
- controversy,
- imposter,
- curly-grained,
- superficial,
- casuistical,
- dour,
- unregenerate,
- forgetful,
- simulated,
- disquieted,
- down,
- fluent,
- eccentric person,
- wanton away,
- shuffle,
- thwart,
- spruce,
- silver-tongued,
- murmuring,
- skillful,
- overbearing,
- alert,
- nippy,
- petit larceny,
- perverted,
- brassy,
- shrewish,
- adverse,
- press cutting,
- life-threatening,
- wicked,
- traverse,
- snoot,
- luxuriate,
- piercingly,
- unrepentant,
- trifle,
- invective,
- paltry,
- crank,
- unforesightful,
- affect,
- murmur,
- fruitless,
- tinny,
- painstaking,
- sweep,
- flush,
- petty larceny,
- footling,
- opposite,
- cut across,
- dapper,
- factious,
- bastard,
- distressed,
- subaltern,
- tremendous,
- shambling,
- role player,
- treasonably,
- mockery,
- delusory,
- apprehensive,
- dissembling,
- vain,
- chinchy,
- tender,
- stiff,
- substantial,
- mark,
- geek,
- acetify,
- curtly,
- libellous,
- cut,
- drear,
- quizzical,
- bitterly,
- supersensitised,
- bad,
- garish,
- blotto,
- laconic,
- postiche,
- idiotic,
- scotch,
- decisive,
- suddenly,
- tawdry,
- bristly,
- wild,
- dreary,
- diminished,
- supersensitized,
- penetrating,
- fantastical,
- simulate,
- jaunty,
- unreliable,
- denigrative,
- congratulations,
- stern,
- case,
- terse,
- phony,
- vital,
- holier-than-thou,
- pretender,
- peculiar,
- soused,
- bristled,
- tatty,
- hypersensitised,
- bleak,
- pretend,
- moneyed,
- hard-bitten,
- badly,
- silly,
- way-out,
- complaintive,
- lively,
- slighting,
- muttering,
- stubborn,
- pocket-sized,
- depreciative,
- diversionist,
- donnish,
- austere,
- unmanageable,
- glowering,
- brusque,
- item,
- zippy,
- grim,
- unwarranted,
- condemning,
- untrue,
- preposterous,
- pretense,
- pie-eyed,
- misanthropical,
- foil,
- squiffy,
- discrepant,
- thwartwise,
- slick,
- indefensible,
- saturnine,
- snarky,
- simulation,
- inexpensive,
- modest,
- flake,
- sulfurous,
- unflattering,
- annihilating,
- argument,
- sensitised,
- hard-to-please,
- short-change,
- assume,
- vitriolic,
- burry,
- facile,
- faux,
- hedge,
- slanderous,
- mutter,
- unretentive,
- pass over,
- tow car,
- light-headed,
- gaudy,
- sharp-worded,
- contrarious,
- mad,
- battleful,
- terrific,
- hotheaded,
- fraudulent,
- baffle,
- restive,
- iridescent,
- juiceless,
- vicious,
- astringent drug,
- discriminating,
- empty-headed,
- gracious,
- shrewd,
- abrasive,
- futile,
- tacky,
- dislogistic,
- shabby,
- whipping,
- feign,
- promiscuous,
- puckish,
- wondrous,
- fuss,
- reproving,
- acidity,
- shammer,
- sore,
- oil of vitriol,
- hard-boiled,
- word-splitting,
- spurious,
- exceptional,
- misanthropic,
- thorny,
- laughable,
- unfit,
- howling,
- threatening,
- shot,
- upstage,
- work,
- teasing,
- nonconcentric,
- haughty,
- recalcitrant,
- smashed,
- lordly,
- off,
- dry out,
- battery-acid,
- clipping,
- silver,
- tilt,
- sozzled,
- stinging,
- serious,
- pretence,
- cheesy,
- tow truck,
- flashy,
- cutting off,
- lilliputian,
- tense up,
- excitable,
- off-the-wall,
- hybrid,
- filthy,
- delusive,
- shortsighted,
- lienal,
- pissed,
- crisp,
- lamenting,
- acutely,
- disconsolate,
- hard,
- malign,
- reprobate,
- fraud,
- punk,
- abruptly,
- moth-eaten,
- kudos,
- hybridisation,
- bolshy,
- depressed,
- jeering,
- unsettled,
- feisty,
- lancinating,
- piercing,
- interbreed,
- mercurial,
- stabbing,
- distant,
- turned,
- black,
- saboteur,
- arch,
- hysteric,
- cunning,
- foxy,
- cover,
- decent,
- blind drunk,
- soaked,
- jesuit,
- dodgy,
- deadly,
- knavish,
- ludicrous,
- sleazy,
- dead,
- rivalry,
- piffling,
- off-and-on,
- gloomful,
- prohibitionist,
- crossbreeding,
- prickly,
- track,
- especial,
- uncongenial,
- disputation,
- little,
- superman,
- thinning,
- antsy,
- hybridise,
- mischievous,
- humble,
- swaggering,
- lower-ranking,
- grave,
- fake,
- mentally ill,
- coarse,
- jeer,
- acerb,
- biliary,
- frosty,
- mutable,
- dainty,
- tricky,
- foul,
- prankish,
- overstrung,
- sharply.
- exacting,
- hysterical,
- Moodish,
- difficult,
- short,
- ironic,
- maggoty,
- nasty,
- pugnacious,
- giddy,
- bogus,
- acid,
- pernickety,
- baseless,
- deceptive,
- jesuitic,
- ornery,
- skittish,
- Humorsome,
- ill-humoured,
- and Irish cranky,
- supersensitive,
- kinky,
- quick-tempered,
- misleading,
- vexed,
- crotchety,
- Backbiting,
- ultracritical,
- groundless,
- acrimonious,
- surly,
- grumpy,
- disagreeable,
- nice,
- high-strung,
- mocking,
- irresolute,
- tense,
- Pecksniffian,
- insidious,
- sulky,
- malevolent,
- sensitive,
- tetchy,
- wily,
- grumpish,
- acerbic,
- exact,
- wanton,
- picayune,
- evasive,
- fickle,
- temperamental,
- unsound,
- ill-tempered,
- edgy,
- satiric,
- discourteous,
- accurate,
- cynical,
- snappy,
- abrupt,
- scrupulous,
- crabbed,
- perverse,
- Aspersive,
- trivial,
- fussy,
- disdainful,
- critic,
- volatile,
- loaded,
- small-minded,
- virulent,
- paltering,
- wayward,
- inconsistent,
- derisory,
- sardonic,
- stroppy,
- Equivocatory,
- malicious,
- bickering,
- dyspeptic,
- acidic,
- bilious,
- cross-grained,
- dry,
- quarrelsome,
- unconformable,
- pharisaic,
- fanciful,
- trifling,
- snot,
- derisive,
- argumentative,
- troublesome,
- cranky,
- false,
- bitter,
- satirical,
- fitful,
- irascible,
- waspish,
- contrary,
- eccentric,
- bellicose,
- whining,
- small,
- Restiff,
- Exceptious,
- freakish,
- Cavilling,
- snappish,
- perplexing,
- cutting,
- particular,
- whimsical,
- contumelious,
- prig,
- poisonous,
- fantastic,
- subtle,
- treacherous,
- highly strung,
- erratic,
- confusing,
- grouchy,
- shuffling,
- scornful,
- arbitrary,
- obstreperous,
- Snarling,
- malefic,
- huffish,
- sullen,
- pussyfooting,
- niggling,
- hot-tempered,
- incisive,
- Ridiculing,
- short-tempered,
- biting,
- fallacious,
- hair-splitting,
- curt,
- thin-skinned,
- bad-tempered,
- on edge,
- acrid,
- hairsplitting,
- contention,
- moody,
- frivolous,
- contemptuous,
- sham,
- hedging,
- curmudgeonly,
- untenable,
- supercritical,
- impatient,
- sour,
- sophistic,
- capricious,
- choleric,
- churlish,
- ill-natured,
- sharp,
- nagging,
- sleeveless,
- caustic,
- pettifogging,
- choplogic,
- snob,
- trenchant,
- spiteful,
- contentious,
- petty,
- demanding.
How to use "Captious" in context?
When something becomes the focus of someone's attention, it can be irritating, frustrating or simply captious. The word captious can describe the way that someone is both obsessive and preoccupied about something. When someone is captious, they are constantly looking for details or evidence to support their opinions. This can be frustrating for others, as it leaves them with little time or space to deal with other matters.
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- Synonyms:
- Improvisatory.
