Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word CAPTIOUS

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Definitions of CAPTIOUS

1. Having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections; cavilling, nitpicky.
2. (obsolete) That captures; especially, (of an argument, words etc.) designed to capture or entrap in misleading arguments; sophistical.

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Examples of Using CAPTIOUS in a Sentence

• His answer to a captious friend who seemed solicitous to disabuse him on this score was merely to point with a gesture to the crowds on the seaside beach reading.
• We shall endeavour to be humorous without being ill-humoured, critical without being captious, militant without being malevolent, independent without being impertinent, and funny (as Mr Albert Chevalier says) without being vulgar.
• Playwright Jack Hibberd called Radic's review "disrespectful, captious and harsh" and "choked with terrible misjudgements".

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