Captious
Captious adjective - Given to making or expressing unfavorable judgments about things.
Temperamental and captious are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Temperamental" instead an adjective "Captious".
Nearby Words: caption, captiously
Temperamental
Temperamental adjective - Frequently influenced by moods and especially bad moods.
Captious and temperamental are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Captious" instead an adjective "Temperamental".
Nearby Word: temperament
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- mean and captious
- mean and temperamental
- irritable and captious
- irritable and temperamental
- cranky and captious
- cranky and temperamental
- short-tempered and captious
- short-tempered and temperamental
- testy and captious
- testy and temperamental
- touchy and captious
- touchy and temperamental
- irascible and captious
- irascible and temperamental
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