captious

Letters that make captious

s, a, o, p, c, t, i, u are letters that make 'captious'

Words within captious

apt, ti, IOU, cap, US, CA, Io, Ca, Pt, Ti are words within 'captious'

Anagrams of captious

autopsic is an anagram of 'captious'


1 possible definitions for 'captious'

Captious as "tending to find and call attention to faults"

Under this definition, captious is an adjective and has the following properties:

Synonyms

faultfinding has the same meaning as captious

Derivatives of captious

faultfinding, carping, caption are derivatives of 'captious'.

Similar to captious

critical is similar to captious.

Example of captious used within this context

"a captious pedant", "an excessively demanding and faultfinding tutor"



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