What is another word for caviling?
311 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ kˈava͡ɪlɪŋ], [ kˈavaɪlɪŋ], [ k_ˈa_v_aɪ_l_ɪ_ŋ]Table of Contents
Similar words for caviling:- argumentative (adjective)
- captious (adjective)
- carping (adjective)
- censorious (adjective)
- critical (adjective)
- cross (adjective)
- disputatious (adjective)
- faultfinding (adjective)
- fretful (adjective)
- hypercritical (adjective)
- hypocritical (adjective)
- irritable (adjective)
- overcritical (adjective)
- peevish (adjective)
- petulant (adjective)
- quibbling (adjective)
- caviling (noun)
- criticism (noun)
- hairsplitting (noun)
- nitpicking (noun)
- other synonyms
- deceitful
- other relevant words
Synonyms for Caviling:
adj.
•argumentative (adjective) •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.
- 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.
- 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.
- finicky,
- derogatory,
- calumniatory,
- harsh,
- judgmental,
- picky,
- reproachful,
- Fault-finding,
- disparaging,
- pedantic.
- 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.
- snappish,
- worried,
- un easy,
- un-easier,
- un-easiest,
- wreckest,
- huffy,
- un easier,
- short tempered,
- shorttempered,
- out sorts,
- un easiest.
- hard please,
- more hair splitting,
- hair splitting,
- most hair splitting,
- hyper-critical,
- hyper critical,
- more hair-splitting,
- hair-splitting,
- most hair-splitting.
- 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.
- 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.
n.
•caviling (noun) •criticism (noun) •hairsplitting (noun) •nitpicking (noun)Other synonyms:
•deceitful •Other relevant words:- 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:
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adj.
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Other antonyms:
undiscriminating, undemanding, forgiving, uncritical, charitable.
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Other antonyms: