CAPTIOUS


Meaning of CAPTIOUS in English

a.

1.

Censorious, cavilling, carping, hypercritical, disposed to cavil, given to fault-finding.

2.

Crabbed, snappish, testy, touchy, waspish, splenetic, cross, snarling, acrimonious, cantankerous ( colloq. ), contentious.

3.

Ensnaring, insidious.

Soule. Dictionary of English synonyms.      Словарь английских синонимов.