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21captious — cap·tious …
22captious — a. fault finding …
23captious — adj. given to finding fault or raising petty objections. Derivatives: captiously adv. captiousness n. Etymology: ME f. OF captieux or L captiosus (as CAPTION) …
24over-captious — etc.: see over 28 …
25captiously — captious ► ADJECTIVE formal ▪ tending to find fault or raise petty objections. DERIVATIVES captiously adverb captiousness noun. ORIGIN Old French captieux, from Latin capere take, seize ; related to CAPTION(Cf. ↑caption) …
26captiousness — captious ► ADJECTIVE formal ▪ tending to find fault or raise petty objections. DERIVATIVES captiously adverb captiousness noun. ORIGIN Old French captieux, from Latin capere take, seize ; related to CAPTION(Cf. ↑caption) …
27critical — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. exacting, captious, censorious, faultfinding, disparaging; judicious, accurate, analytical; decisive; urgent, crucial; dangerous, risky. See disapprobation, importance, detraction. II (Roget s IV)… …
28critical — 1 Critical, hypercritical, faultfinding, captious, caviling, carping, censorious are comparable when they mean exhibiting the spirit of one who detects and points out faults or defects. Critical, when applied to persons who judge and to their… …
29faultfinding — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. captious, carping, caviling, critical, censorious. See disapprobation. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. censorious, captious, carping; see critical 2 . See Synonym Study at critical . III (Roget s 3… …
30critical — adjective Date: 1547 1. a. of, relating to, or being a turning point or specially important juncture < a critical phase >: as (1) relating to or being the stage of a disease at which an abrupt change for better or worse may be expected; also… …
