Dictionary Entry
cavil
cavil is a 5-letter English word with 5 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To raise captious and frivolous objections; to find fault without good reason. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 13 · 5 senses
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- 1intransitive verb
To raise captious and frivolous objections; to find fault without good reason.
- 2transitive verb
To cavil at.
- 3noun
A captious or frivolous objection.
- 4noun
an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections
- 5verb
raise trivial objections
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