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

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To raise captious and frivolous objections; to find fault without good reason.
2. transitive verb. To cavil at.
3. noun. A captious or frivolous objection.
4. noun. an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections

   Synonyms: quibble, quiddity

5. verb. raise trivial objections

   Synonyms: carp, chicane

Synonyms

quibble, quiddity, carp, chicane

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in cavil:

clavi, lavic

Common word forms

cavils, caviled, caviler, caviling, cavilled, caviller, cavilling

Words from these letters

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