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.
  •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 synonyms:

  •deceitful
  • two-faced.
  •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:

• adj.

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