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