"captious" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈkæpʃəs/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-captious.wav [Southern-England] Forms: more captious [comparative], most captious [superlative]
Etymology: From Middle English capcious, from Middle French captieux, or its source, Latin captiōsus, from captiō. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*keh₂p-}}, {{inh|en|enm|capcious}} Middle English capcious, {{der|en|frm|captieux}} Middle French captieux, {{der|en|la|captiōsus}} Latin captiōsus, {{m|la|captiō}} captiō Head templates: {{en-adj}} captious (comparative more captious, superlative most captious)
  1. (obsolete) That captures; especially, (of an argument, words etc.) designed to capture or entrap in misleading arguments; sophistical. Tags: obsolete Synonyms: tricky, thorny, sophistical Translations (that captures misleadingly): խճճող (xččoġ) (Armenian), придирчив (pridirčiv) (Bulgarian), заядлив (zajadliv) (Bulgarian), критичен (kritičen) (Bulgarian), capciós (Catalan), 詭辯的 (Chinese Mandarin), 诡辩的 (guǐbiàn de) (Chinese Mandarin), 強詞奪理的 (Chinese Mandarin), 强词夺理的 (qiǎngcíduólǐ de) (Chinese Mandarin), misleidend (Dutch), sofistisch (Dutch), harhaanjohtava (Finnish), piège [feminine, masculine] (French), spitzfindig (German), verfänglich (German), haarspalterisch [derogatory] (German), capzioso (Italian), tortuoso. (Italian), ambiguo (Italian), ingannevole (Italian), insidioso (Italian), arzigogolato (Italian), captiōsus (Latin), capcioso (Portuguese), ardiloso (Portuguese), astucioso (Portuguese), каверзный (kaverznyj) (Russian), хи́трый (xítryj) (Russian), capcioso (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-captious-en-adj-B~FpWBzm Disambiguation of 'that captures misleadingly': 70 30
  2. Having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections; cavilling, nitpicky. Categories (topical): Personality Synonyms: carping, critical, faultfinding, hypercritical, nitpicky Translations (having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections): մանրախնդիր (manraxndir) (Armenian), բծախնդիր (bcaxndir) (Armenian), քթի մազ (kʻtʻi maz) (Armenian), придирчив (pridirčiv) (Bulgarian), заядлив (zajadliv) (Bulgarian), критичен (kritičen) (Bulgarian), criticador (Catalan), 挑剔 (tiāoti) (Chinese Mandarin), vitziek (Dutch), pikkumainen (Finnish), pinailleur [masculine] (French), krittelig (German), kleinlich (German), kleinkariert (German), beachtaíoch (Irish), gearrghreamannach (Irish), capzioso [masculine] (Italian), sofistico [masculine] (Italian), cavilloso [masculine] (Italian), ngutu-momoho (Maori), toretore (Maori), implicante (Portuguese), придирчивый (pridirčivyj) (Russian), сли́шком стро́гий (slíškom strógij) (Russian), criticón (Spanish), pejiguero (Spanish), müşkülpesent (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-captious-en-adj-1ezmY-lp Disambiguation of Personality: 5 95 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 9 91 Disambiguation of 'having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections': 1 99
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: captiously, captiousness Related terms: caption, capture

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      "expansion": "Latin captiōsus",
      "name": "der"
    },
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      },
      "expansion": "captiō",
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more captious",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most captious",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
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    {
      "word": "caption"
    },
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      "word": "capture"
    }
  ],
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        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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          "ref": "1605, William Shakespeare, All's Well that Ends Well, act I, scene i, page 234",
          "text": "[…]I know I loue in vaine, ſtriue againſt hope : / Yet in this captious, and intemible Siue / I ſtill poure in the waters of my loue / And lacke not to looſe ſtill[…]",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1786, William Cowper, “Tirocinium: Or, A Review of Schools”, in Poems, 2nd edition, volume II, London: J. Johnson, page 338",
          "text": "A captious queſtion, Sir, and your’s is one, / Deſerves an anſwer ſimilar, or none.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1815 March 24, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “To William Lisle Bowles”, in Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Oxford, published 2000, page 558",
          "text": "Were you aware that in your discourse last Sunday you attributed the captious Problem of the Sadducees to the Pharisees, as a proof of the obscure and sensual doctrines of the latter?",
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        }
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      ],
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          "entrap"
        ],
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          "sophistical"
        ]
      ],
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        "(obsolete) That captures; especially, (of an argument, words etc.) designed to capture or entrap in misleading arguments; sophistical."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "tricky"
        },
        {
          "word": "thorny"
        },
        {
          "word": "sophistical"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    },
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1968, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, translated by Sidney Monas, Crime and Punishment, published 1866",
          "text": "But Peter Petrovich did not accept this retort. On the contrary, he became all the more captious and irritable, as though he were just hitting his stride.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009 January 24, Anne Karpf, The Guardian",
          "text": "The \"Our Bold\" column, nitpicking at errors in other periodicals, can look merely captious, and its critics often seem to be wildly and collectively wrong-headed.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections; cavilling, nitpicky."
      ],
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        [
          "disposition",
          "disposition"
        ],
        [
          "fault",
          "fault"
        ],
        [
          "petty",
          "petty"
        ],
        [
          "objection",
          "objection"
        ],
        [
          "cavilling",
          "cavilling"
        ],
        [
          "nitpicky",
          "nitpicky"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "carping"
        },
        {
          "word": "critical"
        },
        {
          "word": "faultfinding"
        },
        {
          "word": "hypercritical"
        },
        {
          "word": "nitpicky"
        }
      ]
    }
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      "ipa": "/ˈkæpʃəs/"
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "xččoġ",
      "sense": "that captures misleadingly",
      "word": "խճճող"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "pridirčiv",
      "sense": "that captures misleadingly",
      "word": "придирчив"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "zajadliv",
      "sense": "that captures misleadingly",
      "word": "заядлив"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "kritičen",
      "sense": "that captures misleadingly",
      "word": "критичен"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "that captures misleadingly",
      "word": "capciós"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "that captures misleadingly",
      "word": "詭辯的"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "guǐbiàn de",
      "sense": "that captures misleadingly",
      "word": "诡辩的"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "that captures misleadingly",
      "word": "強詞奪理的"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "qiǎngcíduólǐ de",
      "sense": "that captures misleadingly",
      "word": "强词夺理的"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "that captures misleadingly",
      "word": "misleidend"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "that captures misleadingly",
      "word": "sofistisch"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "that captures misleadingly",
      "word": "harhaanjohtava"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "that captures misleadingly",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "piège"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "that captures misleadingly",
      "word": "spitzfindig"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "that captures misleadingly",
      "word": "verfänglich"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "that captures misleadingly",
      "tags": [
        "derogatory"
      ],
      "word": "haarspalterisch"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "that captures misleadingly",
      "word": "capzioso"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "that captures misleadingly",
      "word": "tortuoso."
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "that captures misleadingly",
      "word": "ambiguo"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "that captures misleadingly",
      "word": "ingannevole"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "that captures misleadingly",
      "word": "insidioso"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "that captures misleadingly",
      "word": "arzigogolato"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "that captures misleadingly",
      "word": "captiōsus"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "that captures misleadingly",
      "word": "capcioso"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "that captures misleadingly",
      "word": "ardiloso"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "that captures misleadingly",
      "word": "astucioso"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "kaverznyj",
      "sense": "that captures misleadingly",
      "word": "каверзный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "xítryj",
      "sense": "that captures misleadingly",
      "word": "хи́трый"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "that captures misleadingly",
      "word": "capcioso"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "manraxndir",
      "sense": "having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections",
      "word": "մանրախնդիր"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "bcaxndir",
      "sense": "having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections",
      "word": "բծախնդիր"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "kʻtʻi maz",
      "sense": "having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections",
      "word": "քթի մազ"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "pridirčiv",
      "sense": "having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections",
      "word": "придирчив"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "zajadliv",
      "sense": "having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections",
      "word": "заядлив"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "kritičen",
      "sense": "having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections",
      "word": "критичен"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections",
      "word": "criticador"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "tiāoti",
      "sense": "having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections",
      "word": "挑剔"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections",
      "word": "vitziek"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections",
      "word": "pikkumainen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pinailleur"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections",
      "word": "krittelig"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections",
      "word": "kleinlich"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections",
      "word": "kleinkariert"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections",
      "word": "beachtaíoch"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections",
      "word": "gearrghreamannach"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "capzioso"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sofistico"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cavilloso"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections",
      "word": "ngutu-momoho"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections",
      "word": "toretore"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections",
      "word": "implicante"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pridirčivyj",
      "sense": "having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections",
      "word": "придирчивый"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "slíškom strógij",
      "sense": "having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections",
      "word": "сли́шком стро́гий"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections",
      "word": "criticón"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections",
      "word": "pejiguero"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections",
      "word": "müşkülpesent"
    }
  ],
  "word": "captious"
}

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