captious

captious is a 8-letter English word with 3 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Apt to catch at faults; disposed to find fault or to cavil; eager to object; difficult to please. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 15 · 3 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Apt to catch at faults; disposed to find fault or to cavil; eager to object; difficult to please.
2. adjective. Fitted to harass, perplex, or insnare; insidious; troublesome.
3. adjective. tending to find and call attention to faults

   "a captious pedant"

   "an excessively demanding and faultfinding tutor"

   Synonyms: faultfinding

Synonyms

faultfinding

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in captious:

autopsic

Common word forms

captiously, captiousness

Words from these letters

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