Captious
Captious adjective - Given to making or expressing unfavorable judgments about things.
Combative and captious are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Combative" instead an adjective "Captious".
Nearby Words: caption, captiously
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- irritable and captious
- irritable and combative
- testy and captious
- testy and combative
- contrary and captious
- contrary and combative
- touchy and captious
- touchy and combative
- fractious and captious
- fractious and combative
- irascible and captious
- irascible and combative
- choleric and captious
- choleric and combative
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Combative and Captious. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/captious/combative
Captious & Combative. N.p., 2016. Web. 16 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/captious/combative>.
Combative or Captious. 2016. Accessed August 16, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/captious/combative.
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