captious

Meaning of captious

adjective
  1. That captures; especially, (of an argument, words etc.) designed to capture or entrap in misleading arguments; sophistical.
  2. Having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections; cavilling, nitpicky.

Information about captious

  • It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of captious

cap-tious

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • captious is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

captious synonyms

Meaning faultfinding:

faultfinding

Meaning :

sophistical, thorny, tricky, carping, critical, hypercritical, nitpicky

Anagrams of captious

autopsic

Words that rhyme with captious

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