Captious
Captious adjective - Given to making or expressing unfavorable judgments about things.
Fretting and captious are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Fretting" instead an adjective "Captious".
Nearby Words: caption, captiously
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- critical and captious
- critical and fretting
- irritable and captious
- irritable and fretting
- surly and captious
- surly and fretting
- short-tempered and captious
- short-tempered and fretting
- testy and captious
- testy and fretting
- uneasy and captious
- uneasy and fretting
- acrimonious and captious
- acrimonious and fretting
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Fretting and Captious. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/captious/fretting
Captious & Fretting. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/captious/fretting>.
Fretting or Captious. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/captious/fretting.
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