Synonyms for Caviling:

• adj.

  •argumentative (adjective)
  • disputatious.
  •captious (adjective)
  • fault finding,
  • more nit-picking,
  • most caviling,
  • more cavillous,
  • more deprecating,
  • most cavillous,
  • ex-acting,
  • more nit picking,
  • most exceptive,
  • most deprecating,
  • nit picking,
  • most nit-picking,
  • most nit picking,
  • more exceptive,
  • ex acting,
  • irritable,
  • more caviling.
  •carping (adjective)
  • most whining,
  • more criticizing,
  • most grousing,
  • more whining,
  • most griping,
  • more griping,
  • most moaning,
  • most kvetching,
  • more bellyaching,
  • grumbling,
  • more kvetching,
  • most bellyaching,
  • more grousing,
  • more moaning,
  • most criticizing,
  • de precatory,
  • scathing,
  • de-precatory.
  •censorious (adjective)
  • most reproaching,
  • more culpatory,
  • most denouncing,
  • most chiding,
  • most culpatory,
  • more denouncing,
  • most reprehending,
  • most disapproving,
  • more condemning,
  • dis approving,
  • more reprehending,
  • most condemnatory,
  • more disapproving,
  • more reproaching,
  • most condemning,
  • more chiding,
  • dis-approving,
  • more condemnatory.
  •critical (adjective)
  • finicky,
  • derogatory,
  • calumniatory,
  • harsh,
  • judgmental,
  • picky,
  • reproachful,
  • Fault-finding,
  • disparaging,
  • pedantic.
  •cross (adjective)
  • dis-agreeable,
  • more splenetic,
  • more pettish,
  • dis agreeable,
  • illhumored,
  • illtempered,
  • most illhumored,
  • most splenetic,
  • most ill-humored,
  • more ill-humored,
  • more illhumored,
  • out humor,
  • fractious,
  • ill tempered,
  • splenetic,
  • more ill humored,
  • more vexed,
  • most vexed,
  • ill-humored,
  • quick tempered,
  • quicktempered,
  • most ill humored,
  • most pettish,
  • ill humored.
  •disputatious (adjective)
  • more dissentious,
  • most dissentious,
  • dissentious.
  •faultfinding (adjective)
  • most berating,
  • more berating,
  • be rating,
  • be-rating,
  • faultfinding.
  •fretful (adjective)
  • snappish,
  • worried,
  • un easy,
  • un-easier,
  • un-easiest,
  • wreckest,
  • huffy,
  • un easier,
  • short tempered,
  • shorttempered,
  • out sorts,
  • un easiest.
  •hypercritical (adjective)
  • hard please,
  • more hair splitting,
  • hair splitting,
  • most hair splitting,
  • hyper-critical,
  • hyper critical,
  • more hair-splitting,
  • hair-splitting,
  • most hair-splitting.
  •hypocritical (adjective)
  • in sincere,
  • most smooth-spoken,
  • in-sincerer,
  • doubledealing,
  • selfrighteous,
  • more dissembling,
  • most deluding,
  • hypo-critical,
  • smoothtongued,
  • jiviest,
  • most moralistic,
  • two faced,
  • un-reliable,
  • un-natural,
  • more smooth spoken,
  • snide,
  • most dissembling,
  • more deluding,
  • smoothspoken,
  • self righteous,
  • in sincerest,
  • more feigning,
  • un reliable,
  • smooth tongued,
  • most smoothspoken,
  • in sincerer,
  • more moralistic,
  • twofaced,
  • jivier,
  • pietistic,
  • left handed,
  • hypo critical,
  • feigning,
  • in-sincere,
  • lefthanded,
  • in-sincerest,
  • most smooth spoken,
  • most feigning,
  • smooth spoken,
  • more smooth-spoken,
  • more smoothspoken.
  •irritable (adjective)
  • fretful.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • cross,
  • pettish,
  • jivey,
  • peevish,
  • captious,
  • hypercritical,
  • censorious,
  • pharisaical,
  • nit-picking,
  • hard to please,
  • Double dealing,
  • out-of-sorts,
  • condemnatory,
  • out of humor,
  • Culpatory,
  • carping,
  • Cavillous,
  • kvetching,
  • smooth-spoken,
  • quibbling,
  • Exceptive,
  • hypocritical,
  • grousing,
  • critical,
  • petulant,
  • waspy,
  • moralistic,
  • wrecker.
  •overcritical (adjective)
  • over critical.
  •peevish (adjective)
  • badtempered,
  • ill natured,
  • more cussed,
  • more out-of-sorts,
  • bad tempered,
  • Fretting,
  • most growling,
  • ogrest,
  • illnatured,
  • most fretting,
  • most cussed,
  • more fretting,
  • most out-of-sorts,
  • ogrer,
  • more growling,
  • waspier,
  • waspiest,
  • more out of sorts,
  • most out of sorts.
  •petulant (adjective)
  • whinier,
  • whiny,
  • dis-pleased,
  • dis pleased,
  • more crybaby,
  • most crybaby,
  • whiniest,
  • most pouting,
  • un gracious,
  • un-gracious,
  • up tight,
  • up-tight,
  • more pouting.
  •quibbling (adjective)
  • sophistical,
  • prevaricative,
  • casuistic.

• n.

  •caviling (noun)
  • pettifogging,
  • nitpicking.
  •criticism (noun)
  • flak,
  • zapper,
  • bad press,
  • critical remark,
  • brickbat,
  • quibble,
  • statics,
  • rap knuckles,
  • critical remarks,
  • brickbats,
  • rap on knuckles,
  • call down,
  • roast,
  • slap wrist,
  • slap on wrist.
  •hairsplitting (noun)
  • bickerings,
  • perfectionism.
  •nitpicking (noun)
  • hairsplitting.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • criticism.

• Other synonyms:

  •deceitful
  • two-faced.
  •Other relevant words:
  • crisscross,
  • put-on,
  • grumble,
  • contestation,
  • bilk,
  • slur,
  • hard-to-please,
  • foxiness,
  • grumpy,
  • sweep,
  • galling,
  • purification,
  • cranky,
  • lilliputian,
  • hedge,
  • filch,
  • jaw,
  • pocket-sized,
  • shamble,
  • admonitory,
  • lift,
  • bang,
  • mark,
  • pestiferous,
  • lambast,
  • lowly,
  • interbreed,
  • have in mind,
  • misanthropical,
  • disquieted,
  • fox,
  • attack,
  • smash,
  • ass,
  • abstract,
  • pretense,
  • pull a fast one on,
  • pick apart,
  • derogative,
  • pettifog,
  • critique,
  • play a trick on,
  • criticise,
  • small-scale,
  • distressed,
  • hoax,
  • snarf,
  • joke,
  • shunning,
  • ping,
  • pesky,
  • petty larceny,
  • skulduggery,
  • hocus-pocus,
  • cut through,
  • janus-faced,
  • shifty,
  • edification,
  • jest at,
  • flack,
  • rumination,
  • recalcitrant,
  • touchy,
  • faker,
  • screw,
  • evasiveness,
  • belittled,
  • hybridisation,
  • wayward,
  • excitable,
  • minuscule,
  • meanspirited,
  • ill-humoured,
  • muttering,
  • think,
  • fret,
  • small-minded,
  • manifestation,
  • pretending,
  • fast one,
  • piddling,
  • intersect,
  • cut across,
  • rumbling,
  • statute title,
  • quiddity,
  • fire,
  • bothersome,
  • conjuration,
  • joint,
  • pat,
  • ambidextrous,
  • frustrate,
  • tow truck,
  • misrepresentation,
  • self-righteous,
  • word-splitting,
  • jiggery-pokery,
  • lambaste,
  • piece of tail,
  • unfavorable judgment,
  • blind,
  • contrivance,
  • style,
  • chouse,
  • fencing material,
  • bash,
  • fluent,
  • flap down,
  • antic,
  • little,
  • elision,
  • jibe,
  • waspish,
  • unsportsmanlike,
  • thoughtfulness,
  • get over,
  • humbug,
  • form of address,
  • brabble,
  • hybridizing,
  • false belief,
  • nettlesome,
  • play a joke on,
  • fuss,
  • mundaneness,
  • apostasy,
  • hybridization,
  • reflectivity,
  • traverse,
  • testy,
  • finespun,
  • litigious,
  • cabbage,
  • conjure,
  • foil,
  • pretence,
  • libelous,
  • silver,
  • nonpayment,
  • trounce,
  • upset,
  • defamatory,
  • vituperative,
  • sophistic,
  • wiliness,
  • bad-tempered,
  • nooky,
  • dig,
  • pseud,
  • craftiness,
  • piffling,
  • entitle,
  • refractory,
  • rumble,
  • adulterous,
  • bicker,
  • blame,
  • exigent,
  • arouse,
  • shrewish,
  • perverted,
  • barb,
  • queer,
  • coarse,
  • denigration,
  • fibbing,
  • flim-flam,
  • interbreeding,
  • depraved,
  • entail,
  • foul,
  • bawl out,
  • abrasive,
  • belt,
  • double-tongued,
  • plaguey,
  • combative,
  • finical,
  • admonishing,
  • scheme,
  • decisive,
  • techy,
  • mingy,
  • pocket-size,
  • whack,
  • strike hard,
  • bristly,
  • pilfer,
  • ridicule,
  • shag,
  • teasing,
  • crossing,
  • prank,
  • laugh at,
  • lecture,
  • transverse,
  • disturbed,
  • curmudgeonly,
  • stern,
  • conjuring trick,
  • opprobrium,
  • sanctimonious,
  • reverse,
  • murmuring,
  • beggarly,
  • nookie,
  • knap,
  • supercilious,
  • rubric,
  • ill-tempered,
  • mosh,
  • have words,
  • knavery,
  • arguing,
  • gibe,
  • petit larceny,
  • deed,
  • fucking,
  • invoke,
  • donnish,
  • diminished,
  • calumnious,
  • duplicity,
  • chew out,
  • get across,
  • stir,
  • chew up,
  • mirror image,
  • span,
  • silver-tongued,
  • sneak,
  • snappy,
  • saboteur,
  • hatchet job,
  • jockey,
  • magic,
  • denigrating,
  • reprobate,
  • mutter,
  • competition,
  • crusty,
  • negligible,
  • crabby,
  • plaguy,
  • conjure up,
  • sham,
  • pseudo,
  • slander,
  • roll in the hay,
  • crabbed,
  • thwartwise,
  • take to task,
  • criticize,
  • bastardly,
  • vexatious,
  • pinch,
  • tetchy,
  • peckish,
  • craftsmanship,
  • antiaircraft,
  • imposter,
  • whang,
  • misanthropic,
  • thrash,
  • trade,
  • musing,
  • workmanship,
  • mad,
  • put forward,
  • minor,
  • ruse,
  • sprinkling,
  • lie,
  • reflexion,
  • sore,
  • slam dance,
  • cunning,
  • annoying,
  • condemning,
  • rough,
  • transversal,
  • prickly,
  • dissimulation,
  • bump,
  • observation,
  • baffle,
  • controversy,
  • pass over,
  • deed of conveyance,
  • hip-hop,
  • imply,
  • pick,
  • crossbreed,
  • roasted,
  • shift,
  • fiddling,
  • remonstrate,
  • claim,
  • pretender,
  • subaltern,
  • shammer,
  • flak catcher,
  • dupery,
  • facile,
  • paltry,
  • mean value,
  • thin-skinned,
  • antiaircraft gun,
  • championship,
  • gambit,
  • calumny,
  • refinement,
  • lienal,
  • deceitfulness,
  • illusion,
  • guy,
  • crossbreeding,
  • strict,
  • double-dealing,
  • denigrative,
  • title of respect,
  • shuffle,
  • low,
  • role player,
  • modest,
  • fake,
  • vexing,
  • shaft,
  • think of,
  • miserly,
  • eloquent,
  • junior-grade,
  • tap,
  • nobble,
  • signify,
  • hook,
  • wile,
  • evoke,
  • avoidance,
  • traducement,
  • complaintive,
  • superficial,
  • reprimand,
  • blackguard,
  • whoremaster,
  • track,
  • denigratory,
  • tiff,
  • tow car,
  • blast,
  • grouchy,
  • particular,
  • argument,
  • ack-ack,
  • legerdemain,
  • escape,
  • splenic,
  • divisive,
  • chide,
  • fastidious,
  • spat,
  • simulation,
  • footling,
  • sneering,
  • scold,
  • fidgety,
  • lying,
  • turning away,
  • academic,
  • holier-than-thou,
  • secondary,
  • flack catcher,
  • call forth,
  • disputative,
  • hybrid,
  • dawdling,
  • fabrication,
  • humble,
  • opposite,
  • stenosis,
  • feisty,
  • intend,
  • raise,
  • subtitle,
  • fable,
  • adverse,
  • hybridise,
  • dissembling,
  • dodge,
  • murmur,
  • reproving,
  • carp,
  • bring up,
  • pink,
  • libellous,
  • two-timing,
  • fence,
  • pom-pom,
  • call on the carpet,
  • contemplation,
  • shtup,
  • unsporting,
  • strike,
  • spoil,
  • hateful,
  • make fun,
  • stand for,
  • tight,
  • ploy,
  • worldliness,
  • make,
  • rebuke,
  • shenanigan,
  • contentious,
  • hybridize,
  • scotch,
  • irritating,
  • lower-ranking,
  • dirty,
  • whiney,
  • unfirm,
  • shambling,
  • gruff,
  • piece of ass,
  • itchy,
  • whoremonger,
  • purloin,
  • querulous,
  • obstinate,
  • cheat,
  • dalliance,
  • antsy,
  • caper,
  • rag,
  • cover,
  • play tricks,
  • rap music,
  • exclusion,
  • tilt,
  • rivalry,
  • fuck,
  • factious,
  • busy,
  • squabble,
  • slanderous,
  • dress down,
  • rib,
  • poke fun,
  • berate,
  • expression,
  • pietistical,
  • casuistical,
  • scratchy,
  • shot,
  • impostor,
  • deceitful,
  • double-faced,
  • slyness,
  • apprehensive,
  • average,
  • literary criticism,
  • duplicitous,
  • thwart,
  • magic trick,
  • fob,
  • base,
  • slickness,
  • vital,
  • skullduggery,
  • defamation,
  • disputation,
  • censure,
  • crown of thorns,
  • diversionist.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • petty,
  • caption,
  • deception,
  • Jockeying,
  • Parrying,
  • knock,
  • trick,
  • Repudiating,
  • fencing,
  • dishonesty,
  • protesting,
  • paltering,
  • overcritical,
  • pestering,
  • fallacy,
  • Censuring,
  • nagging,
  • trivial,
  • chicaning,
  • pharisaic,
  • perverse,
  • Equivocating,
  • exception,
  • chicane,
  • swipe,
  • obloquy,
  • evasion,
  • sophistication,
  • sophism,
  • Boggling,
  • cynical,
  • HIT,
  • Quarrelling,
  • critic,
  • Demurring,
  • legend,
  • bickering,
  • refining,
  • sophistry,
  • guile,
  • reflection,
  • picking,
  • Reproaching,
  • dodging,
  • niggling,
  • mendacity,
  • imputation,
  • rap,
  • deceit,
  • pussyfooting,
  • aspersion,
  • casuistry,
  • demanding,
  • title,
  • prevarication,
  • hedging,
  • contrary,
  • Equivocatory,
  • artifice,
  • mean,
  • stricture,
  • shuffling,
  • exacting,
  • knocking,
  • trifling,
  • nit,
  • subterfuge,
  • screwing,
  • animadversion,
  • small,
  • Pecksniffian,
  • niggle,
  • terminological inexactitude,
  • evasive,
  • trickery,
  • shifting,
  • bad notices,
  • cavil,
  • fussy,
  • Objecting,
  • Shafting,
  • fraudulence,
  • complaining,
  • picayune,
  • jugglery,
  • Pettifoggery,
  • chicanery,
  • cheating,
  • craft,
  • tergiversation,
  • stratagem,
  • slam,
  • equivocation,
  • fraud,
  • contention.

Antonyms for Caviling:

• adj.

  • Other antonyms:
    undiscriminating, undemanding, forgiving, uncritical, charitable.