Captious
Captious adjective - Given to making or expressing unfavorable judgments about things.
Polemical and captious are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Polemical" instead an adjective "Captious".
Nearby Words: caption, captiously
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- critical and captious
- critical and polemical
- sarcastic and captious
- sarcastic and polemical
- contrary and captious
- contrary and polemical
- perverse and captious
- perverse and polemical
- touchy and captious
- touchy and polemical
- fractious and captious
- fractious and polemical
- quarrelsome and captious
- quarrelsome and polemical
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Polemical and Captious. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/captious/polemical
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Polemical or Captious. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/captious/polemical.
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