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adj. Marked by a disposition to find and point out trivial faults: a captious scholar.

adj. Intended to entrap or confuse, as in an argument: a captious question.

adj. That captures; especially, (of an argument, words etc.) designed to capture or entrap in misleading arguments; sophistical.

adj. Having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections; cavilling, nitpicky

adj. Apt to catch at faults; disposed to find fault or to cavil; eager to object; difficult to please.

adj. Fitted to harass, perplex, or insnare; insidious; troublesome.

Apt to notice and make much of unimportant faults or defects; disposed to find fault or raise objections; prone to cavil; difficult to please; faultfinding; touchy: as, a captious man.

Proceeding from a faultfinding or caviling disposition; fitted to harass or perplex; censorious; carping; hence, insidious; crafty: as, a captious question.

Capable of receiving; capacious.

Insnaring; captivating.

Synonyms Captious, Carping, Caviling, faultfinding, hypercritical, crabbed, testy, pettish, splenetic, all express unamiable temper and behavior, with wrongheadedness. Captious expresses a disposition to catch at little or inoffensive things, and magnify them into great defects, affronts, etc. Carping is a strong word noting faultfinding that is both unreasonable and unceasing; it applies more to criticism on conduct, while caviling applies to objections to arguments, opinions, and the like: as, it is easier to cavil than to disprove. See petulant.

adj. tending to find and call attention to faults

"'Well, my lord, I don't think I could be called captious for saying that the world has not gone over well with me.'"

critical   

caviling    fault-finding   

hypercritical    troublesome    censorious    peevish    fretful    perverse    insidious    catchy    entangling    sophistic    fallacious   

ill-natured    peevish    ill-tempered    splenetic    irascible    choleric    uncharitable    unfriendly    unkind    morose