Home                   
Crossword Solver
Glossary HQ
Links for Word Lovers
Word of the Week
Help                      
Copyrights           
Privacy                 
Webmasters
Link to Us
Contact Us           
Bookstore            
 

 
 
Complete Definition of "captious"

English
Adjective
en-adj

  1. having a disposition to find, and point out minor faults; to judge too severely
  2. intended to trap or confuse
1866 - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (tr. Sidney Monas), Crime and Punishment (1866, tr. 1968).

io:captious
te:captious
vi:captious
zh:captious

Revision and Credits for"captious"
Dictionary content provided from Wiktionary.org under the
GNU Free Documentation License
 
 

 Find:
  Words Starting With:
  Words Ending With:
  Words Containing:
  Words That Match:
 
 Translate Into:
   Dutch   French   German
   Italian   Spanish
    Show results per page.
Browse the Dictionary
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

   
Allwords Copyright 1998-2024 All rights reserved.