English-Thai Dictionary

captious

ADJ ที่ บ่น กับ เรื่องไร้สาระ  ti-bon-kab-rueang-rai-sa-ra

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CAPTIOUS

a. 1. Disposed to find fault, or raise objections; apt to cavil, as in popular language, it is said, apt to catch at; as a captious man.
2. Fitted to catch or ensnare; insidious; as a captious question.
3. Proceeding from a caviling disposition; as a captious objection or criticism.

 

CAPTIOUSLY

adv. In a captious manner; with an inclination or intention to object, or censure.

 

CAPTIOUSNESS

n.Disposition to find fault; inclination to object; peevishness.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

CAPTIOUS

Cap "tious, a. Etym: [F. captieux, L. captiosus. See Caption. ]

 

1. Art to catch at faults; disposed to find fault or to cavil; eager to object; difficult to please. A captius and suspicious. Stillingfleet. I am sensible I have not disposed my materials to adbide the test of a captious controversy. Bwike.

 

2. Fitted to harass, perplex, or insnare; insidious; troublesome. Captious restraints on navigation. Bancroft.

 

Syn. -- Caviling, carping, fault-finding; censorious; hypercritical; peevish, fretful; perverse; troublesome. -- Captious, caviling, Carping. A captious person is one who has a fault-finding habit or manner, or is disposed to catch at faults, errors, etc. , with quarrelsome intent; a caviling person is disposed to raise objections on frivolous grounds; carping implies that one is given to ill-natured, persistent, or unreasonable fault-finding, or picking up of the words or actions of others. Caviling is the carping of argument, carping the caviling of ill temper. C. J. Smith.

 

CAPTIOUSLY

CAPTIOUSLY Cap "tious *ly, adv.

 

Defn: In a captious manner.

 

CAPTIOUSNESS

CAPTIOUSNESS Cap "tious *ness, n.

 

Defn: Captious disposition or manner.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

captious

cap tious |ˈkapSHəs ˈkæpʃəs | ▶adjective formal (of a person ) tending to find fault or raise petty objections. DERIVATIVES cap tious ly adverb, cap tious ness noun ORIGIN late Middle English (also in the sense ‘intended to deceive someone ’): from Old French captieux or Latin captiosus, from captio (n- ) ‘seizing, ’ (figuratively ) ‘deceiving ’ (see caption ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

captious

captious |ˈkapʃəs | ▶adjective formal tending to find fault or raise petty objections: a captious teacher. DERIVATIVES captiously adverb, captiousness noun ORIGIN late Middle English (also in the sense ‘intended to deceive someone ’): from Old French captieux or Latin captiosus, from captio (n- )‘seizing ’, (figuratively ) ‘deceiving ’ (see caption ).

 

Oxford Thesaurus

captious

captious adjective the losers were glum and captious: critical, fault-finding, quibbling, niggling, cavilling, carping, criticizing, disapproving, censorious, judgemental, overcritical, hypercritical, pedantic, hair-splitting, pettifogging; informal nitpicking, pernickety. ANTONYMS forgiving, easy-going.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

captious

cap tious /kǽpʃəs /形容詞 1 ｟かたく ｠〈人が 〉あら捜しをする, 欠点を見つけ出そうとする, 文句をつけたがる .2 〈質問などが 〉相手を困惑させるような .～ly 副詞 ～ness 名詞