- Types Of Speech
- You can use captious as a adjective satellite in a sentence.
- About Captious
- A 3 syllables adjective satellite and 8 letters with the letters a, c, i, o, p, s, t, and u, 4 consonants, 4 vowels and 3 syllables with the middle letters ti. Captious starts with and ends in a consonant with the starting letters c, ca, cap, capt, capti, and the ending characters are s, us, ous, ious, tious, ..
- Definition
- Tending to find and call attention to faults; "a captious pedant"; "an excessively demanding and faultfinding tutor"
- Origin/Roots
- Middle English
- School Grade
- Captious is set as a sat word that starts with c, ends with s, 3 syllables, 4 vowels and 8 letters.
- Pig Latin
- Captious in Pig Latin is said as "aptiouscay or aptiouscway".
- Unigram
- c | a | p | t | i | o | u | s
- Bigram
- ca | ap | pt | ti | io | ou | us
- Trigram
- cap | apt | pti | tio | iou | ous
- Quadrigram
- capt | apti | ptio | tiou | ious
- Word Gram
Synonym | Definition |
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Bicker | a quarrel about petty points |
Bickering | a quarrel about petty points |
Brisk | become brisk "business brisked up" |
Carping | persistent petty and unjustified criticism |
Caviling | quibbling over insignificant details "caviling pettifoggers and quiggling pleaders"-Edmund Burke "her nagging and carping attack" "thought her editor unnecessarily nitpicking" "a pettifogging lawyer''s mind" "had no patience with quibbling critics" |
Censorious | harshly critical or expressing censure "was censorious of petty failings" |
Choplogic | |
Contrary | two propositions are contraries if both cannot be true but both can be false |
Cranky | easily irritated or annoyed "an incorrigibly fractious young man" "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen" |
Critic | someone who frequently finds fault or makes harsh and unfair judgments |
View all cognitive synonyms for Captious
Anagram | Definition |
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Captious | tending to find and call attention to faults "a captious pedant" "an excessively demanding and faultfinding tutor" |
View English words with the unique letters used in captious. Words With The Letters Aciopstu
Similar Word | Definition |
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Critical | marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws; "a critical attitude" |
Captious Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With C
- Ends With S
- Spelled With / Contains Letters