captious
Meaning of captious
adjective
- That captures; especially, (of an argument, words etc.) designed to capture or entrap in misleading arguments; sophistical.
- Having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections; cavilling, nitpicky.
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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:
Meaning :
sophistical, thorny, tricky, carping, critical, hypercritical, nitpicky
Anagrams of captious
Words that rhyme with captious
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