What is another word for Fault-finding?
632 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ fˈɒltfˈa͡ɪndɪŋ], [ fˈɒltfˈaɪndɪŋ], [ f_ˈɒ_l_t_f_ˈaɪ_n_d_ɪ_ŋ]
Fault-finding can be described as a critical and negative approach towards something or someone, constantly looking for errors and mistakes. There are several synonyms for this term, including nitpicking, nitpicky, carping, criticizing, critical, disapproving, hypercritical, fault-finding, negative, fault-focused, blameful, and judgmental. While these terms may depict somewhat different shades of meaning, they all share the overarching definition of focusing more on faults and flaws than on positive traits or qualities. Fault-finding can be a useful practice in certain contexts, such as in quality control or inspection, but if taken to an extreme, it can lead to negativity and dissatisfaction in personal and professional relationships.
Synonyms for Fault-finding:
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adj.
• critical • querulous • captious- ex acting ,
- ex-acting ,
- fault finding ,
- hyper critical ,
- hyper-critical ,
- more caviling ,
- more cavillous ,
- more deprecating ,
- more exceptive ,
- more nit picking ,
- more nit-picking ,
- most caviling ,
- most cavillous ,
- most deprecating ,
- most exceptive ,
- most nit picking ,
- most nit-picking ,
- nit picking ,
- over-critical .
- de precatory ,
- de-precatory ,
- more bellyaching ,
- more criticizing ,
- more griping ,
- more grousing ,
- more kvetching ,
- more moaning ,
- more whining ,
- most bellyaching ,
- most criticizing ,
- most griping ,
- most grousing ,
- most kvetching ,
- most moaning ,
- most whining .
- dis approving ,
- dis-approving ,
- more chiding ,
- more condemnatory ,
- more condemning ,
- more culpatory ,
- more denouncing ,
- more disapproving ,
- more reprehending ,
- more reproaching ,
- most chiding ,
- most condemnatory ,
- most condemning ,
- most culpatory ,
- most denouncing ,
- most disapproving ,
- most reprehending ,
- most reproaching .
- de crying ,
- de grading ,
- de meaning ,
- de rogatory ,
- de spiteful ,
- de-crying ,
- de-grading ,
- de-meaning ,
- de-rogatory ,
- de-spiteful ,
- dis honoring ,
- dis-honoring ,
- more aspersing ,
- more belittling ,
- more decrying ,
- more demeaning ,
- more detracting ,
- more dishonoring ,
- more maligning ,
- more minimizing ,
- more reproachful ,
- more vilifying ,
- most aspersing ,
- most belittling ,
- most decrying ,
- most demeaning ,
- most detracting ,
- most dishonoring ,
- most maligning ,
- most minimizing ,
- most reproachful ,
- most vilifying ,
- un favorable ,
- un flattering ,
- un-favorable ,
- un-flattering .
- bad tempered ,
- badtempered ,
- ill natured ,
- illnatured ,
- more cussed ,
- more fretting ,
- more growling ,
- more out of sorts ,
- more out-of-sorts ,
- more splenetic ,
- most cussed ,
- most fretting ,
- most growling ,
- most out of sorts ,
- most out-of-sorts ,
- most splenetic ,
- ogrer ,
- ogrest ,
- short tempered ,
- shorttempered ,
- waspier ,
- waspiest .
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n.
• complaint- CCS ,
- dis satisfaction ,
- dis satisfactions ,
- dis-satisfaction ,
- dis-satisfactions ,
- ex postulation ,
- ex postulations ,
- ex-postulation ,
- ex-postulations ,
- fault findings ,
- fault-findings ,
- faultfindings ,
- re monstrance ,
- re monstrances ,
- re presentation ,
- re presentations ,
- re-monstrance ,
- re-monstrances ,
- re-presentations .
Other relevant words:
- abrasive ,
- abruptly ,
- abusive ,
- academic ,
- acetify ,
- acidify ,
- acidity ,
- acidulate ,
- ack-ack ,
- admonishing ,
- ailment ,
- animadversion ,
- antiaircraft ,
- antiaircraft gun ,
- antsy ,
- atrabilious ,
- attack ,
- austere ,
- baffle ,
- bawling ,
- bawling out ,
- belittled ,
- belittling ,
- bemoan ,
- bewail ,
- biliary ,
- bilk ,
- bitter ,
- black ,
- blast ,
- bloody-minded ,
- bristly ,
- brusk ,
- brusque ,
- buncombe ,
- bunk ,
- bunkum ,
- busy ,
- castigation ,
- cautionary ,
- charge ,
- chewing out ,
- chiding ,
- choler ,
- coarse ,
- combative ,
- complaintive ,
- condemning ,
- contrary ,
- coronach ,
- courteous ,
- cover ,
- crank ,
- creak ,
- criminate ,
- crisp ,
- crisscross ,
- critique ,
- croak ,
- crossbreed ,
- crossbreeding ,
- crossing ,
- crossness ,
- crown of thorns ,
- crusted ,
- crustlike ,
- curtly ,
- cut across ,
- cut through ,
- dainty ,
- dangerous ,
- dark ,
- dead ,
- decent ,
- decisive ,
- delicate ,
- deplore ,
- depraved ,
- derogative ,
- diminished ,
- dirge ,
- disconnected ,
- disgraceful ,
- disputatious ,
- disputative ,
- donnish ,
- dour ,
- dressing down ,
- earful ,
- elegy ,
- encrusted ,
- excitable ,
- exclusion ,
- excommunication ,
- exemplary ,
- exigent ,
- false ,
- faultfinding ,
- feisty ,
- ferment ,
- fetor ,
- fiddling ,
- fidgety ,
- finespun ,
- fingerpointing ,
- fire ,
- flack ,
- flack catcher ,
- flak catcher ,
- foetor ,
- foil ,
- footling ,
- forgetful ,
- fretfulness ,
- frustrate ,
- gang fight ,
- get across ,
- get over ,
- gloomful ,
- glooming ,
- gloomy ,
- glowering ,
- glum ,
- gnarl ,
- going-over ,
- gracious ,
- grave ,
- grievous ,
- grizzle ,
- grouch ,
- grouchy ,
- growl ,
- gruff ,
- harassed ,
- hard ,
- hard-to-please ,
- harried ,
- high-strung ,
- highly strung ,
- hogwash ,
- hot-tempered ,
- hotheaded ,
- huffish ,
- huffy ,
- humble ,
- hybrid ,
- hybridisation ,
- hybridise ,
- hybridization ,
- hybridize ,
- hybridizing ,
- ignominious ,
- ill ,
- inadequate ,
- inglorious ,
- interbreed ,
- interbreeding ,
- intersect ,
- irritability ,
- itchy ,
- jejune ,
- jittery ,
- jumpy ,
- junior-grade ,
- keen ,
- knockout ,
- laconic ,
- lamentation ,
- lamenting ,
- lienal ,
- life-threatening ,
- light ,
- lilliputian ,
- literary criticism ,
- litigious ,
- little ,
- liverish ,
- livery ,
- low ,
- lower-ranking ,
- lowly ,
- malodor ,
- malodour ,
- mark ,
- mephitis ,
- miffed ,
- minor ,
- minuscule ,
- modest ,
- monitory ,
- morose ,
- murmur ,
- murmuration ,
- mussitation ,
- mutter ,
- muttering ,
- myopic ,
- nervy ,
- nettled ,
- nettlesome ,
- objurgation ,
- obstinate ,
- off ,
- off-key ,
- ornery ,
- overnice ,
- overstrung ,
- particular ,
- pass over ,
- peckish ,
- peeved ,
- peevishness ,
- perverted ,
- pestered ,
- petit larceny ,
- petty larceny ,
- petulance ,
- piddling ,
- piffling ,
- pissed ,
- pissed off ,
- pocket-size ,
- pocket-sized ,
- pom-pom ,
- poor ,
- precipitous ,
- prickly ,
- prissy ,
- queer ,
- quick-tempered ,
- rancid ,
- raring ,
- recalcitrant ,
- reek ,
- refractory ,
- reprimand ,
- reprobate ,
- requiem ,
- restive ,
- riled ,
- roiled ,
- rot ,
- rough ,
- rumbling ,
- saturnine ,
- scant ,
- scold ,
- scotch ,
- scratchy ,
- screak ,
- screech ,
- scurrilous ,
- secondary ,
- serious ,
- shameful ,
- sharp ,
- short-change ,
- short-circuit ,
- shortly ,
- shortsighted ,
- shortstop ,
- shrewish ,
- skillful ,
- skreak ,
- slighting ,
- sluggish ,
- small-scale ,
- snappy ,
- snivel ,
- sourness ,
- span ,
- spartan ,
- splenic ,
- spoil ,
- squeak ,
- squeamish ,
- stark ,
- steamed ,
- stench ,
- stern ,
- strict ,
- stung ,
- subaltern ,
- suddenly ,
- sullen ,
- susurrant ,
- sweep ,
- tartness ,
- techy ,
- temperamental ,
- tender ,
- terrible ,
- terse ,
- thin-skinned ,
- threnody ,
- thwart ,
- thwartwise ,
- ticklish ,
- tippy ,
- tongue-lashing ,
- track ,
- transversal ,
- transverse ,
- traverse ,
- trivial ,
- turn ,
- turned ,
- unawares ,
- unfavorable judgment ,
- unforesightful ,
- unmanageable ,
- unretentive ,
- unsympathetic ,
- uptight ,
- vital ,
- vituperative ,
- wail ,
- wailful ,
- warning ,
- wayward ,
- whimper ,
- whiney ,
- whispering ,
- wicked ,
- word-splitting ,
- work ,
- yammer ,
- yawp .
- Captiousness ,
- Cavilling ,
- Hypercriticism ,
- Piqued ,
- abrupt ,
- acrimonious ,
- admonitory ,
- and Irish cranky ,
- annoyed ,
- bad-tempered ,
- bilious ,
- bitching ,
- cantankerous ,
- censorious ,
- censure ,
- choleric ,
- churlish ,
- complaining ,
- complaint ,
- condemnatory ,
- contentious ,
- crabbed ,
- crabby ,
- cranky ,
- criticism ,
- criticizing ,
- cross ,
- crotchety ,
- crusty ,
- curmudgeonly ,
- curt ,
- demanding ,
- deprecating ,
- deprecative ,
- deprecatory ,
- depreciating ,
- depreciative ,
- depreciatory ,
- difficult ,
- disagreeable ,
- disapproving ,
- dyspeptic ,
- edgy ,
- exacting ,
- fastidious ,
- finical ,
- flak ,
- fractious ,
- fretful ,
- fussiness ,
- fussy ,
- grousing ,
- grumbling ,
- grumpish ,
- grumpy ,
- hair-splitting ,
- hairsplitting ,
- hypercritical ,
- ill-humoured ,
- ill-natured ,
- ill-tempered ,
- impatient ,
- in a pique ,
- irascible ,
- irritable ,
- irritated ,
- judgemental ,
- moody ,
- murmuring ,
- nagging ,
- nice ,
- niggling ,
- nit-picking ,
- over-particular ,
- overcritical ,
- peevish ,
- perverse ,
- pettifogging ,
- pettish ,
- petty ,
- petulant ,
- picayune ,
- pickiness ,
- quarrelsome ,
- querulous ,
- quibbling ,
- reproachful ,
- reproving ,
- scolding ,
- severe ,
- short ,
- short-tempered ,
- small ,
- small-minded ,
- snappish ,
- sour ,
- splenetic ,
- sulky ,
- supercritical ,
- testy ,
- tetchy ,
- touchy ,
- upbraiding ,
- vexed ,
- waspish ,
- whining .
How to use "Fault-finding" in context?
Fault-finding is the process of systematically identifying and correcting defects in a system or application. Fault-finding is often used during the development and testing phases of a system, and it is an important part of ensuring that the system functions as expected.
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