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81 carping
a злой; недоброжелательный; язвительныйСинонимический ряд:1. caviling (adj.) caviling; fault finding; nagging; sarcastic; severe2. critical (adj.) captious; cavilling; cavillous; censorious; critic; critical; derogatory; faultfinding; hypercritical; overcritical; strict; trenchant3. carping (verb) carping; cavilling; pettifogging; quibbling4. picking (verb) fussing; nagging; pecking; picking -
82 censorious
a строгий; склонный осуждать; придирчивыйСинонимический ряд:complaining (adj.) captious; carping; caviling; cavilling; cavillous; complaining; critic; critical; derogatory; disparaging; faultfinding; hypercritical; overcritical; reproachful; severe; strict; trenchant -
83 confusing
a сбивающий с толкуСинонимический ряд:1. disconcerting (adj.) abashing; agitating; confounding; discomfiting; disconcerting; disturbing; embarrassing; puzzling; unsettling2. tricky (adj.) captious; loaded; perplexing; subtle; treacherous; tricky; wily3. beclouding (verb) beclouding; befogging; blurring; clouding; fogging; muddying4. discomforting (verb) abashing; chagrining; discomfiting; discomforting; disconcerting; discountenancing; embarrassing; fazing; mortifying; put out; rattling5. jumbling (verb) disordering; fouling up; jumbling; mess up; muddling; scrambling; snarling; snarling up; tumbling6. misrepresenting (verb) belying; coloring; distorting; falsifying; garbling; misrepresenting; misstating; perverting; twisting; warping; wrenching; wresting7. throwing (verb) addling; balling up; befuddling; bewildering; confounding; distracting; dizzying; flustering; fuddling; mistaking; mix up; mixing; mixing up; mulling; perplexing; posing; puzzling; stumbling; throwing; throwing off; throwing out -
84 critic
1. n критик2. n критиканСинонимический ряд:1. critical (adj.) captious; carping; caviling; cavillous; censorious; critical; faultfinding; hypercritical; overcritical2. faultfinder (noun) aristarch; blamer; carper; caviler; censurer; criticizer; detractor; faultfinder; knocker; momus; nagger; quibbler; smellfungus; Zoilus3. judge (noun) analyst; analyzer; annotator; antagonist; appraiser; authority; censor; commentator; connoisseur; judge; reviewerАнтонимический ряд: -
85 critical
1. a решающий, переломный; критический2. a важный, ценный3. a лит. критический, относящийся к критике литературы и искусства4. a опасный, критический; угрожающийcritical defect — опасный дефект; критическая неисправность
5. a осуждающий, критикующий; разборчивый, требовательный6. a амер. дефицитный; крайне необходимый; нормируемый7. a спец. критический, граничныйСинонимический ряд:1. analytical (adj.) analytical; discriminating; judging2. dangerous (adj.) dangerous; hazardous; perilous; precarious; risky; suspenseful; ticklish3. faultfinding (adj.) captious; carping; caviling; cavilling; cavillous; censorious; critic; derogatory; disparaging; faultfinding; finicky; hypercritical; overcritical; picky; strict; trenchant4. important (adj.) acute; climacteric; crucial; deciding; decisive; desperate; determining; dire; discerning; grave; great; grievous; important; momentous; penetrating; pivotal; serious; strategic5. precise (adj.) delicate; discriminate; exact; fastidious; judicial; minute; particular; preciseАнтонимический ряд:complimentary; easy; inexact; insignificant; loose; popular; safe; shallow; superficial; trivial; unimportant -
86 denunciatory
1. a обвинительный, обличительный2. a содержащий угрозуСинонимический ряд:1. abusive (adj.) abusive; captious; censorious; invective; scurrilous; truculent; vituperative2. accusative (adj.) accusative; accusatorial; denunciative; incriminating -
87 disparaging
a уничижительный, умаляющий достоинствоthe article was considered to be too disparaging of the writer — было сочтено, что статья содержит чересчур уничижительную оценку писателя
disparaging words, acts or gestures — уничижительные слова, действия или жесты
Синонимический ряд:1. complaining (adj.) captious; carping; censorious; complaining; critical; faultfinding; reproachful; severe2. derogatory (adj.) belittling; deprecatory; depreciative; depreciatory; derogatory; detracting; disadvantageous; dyslogistic; pejorative; slighting; uncomplimentary3. dim (adj.) adverse; dim4. decrying (verb) abusing; belittling; crying down; decrying; depreciating; derogating; detracting; detracting from; diminishing; discounting; disparaging; downgrading; minimising; minimizing; running down; taking away; taking from; talk down; writing off5. discouraging (verb) chilling; dejecting; demoralizing; discouraging; disheartening; dispiriting -
88 disputatious
a книжн. любящий спорить; несговорчивыйСинонимический ряд:contentious (adj.) argumentative; captious; combative; contentious; controversial; litigious; polemical; quarrelsome; scrappy -
89 faultfinding
Синонимический ряд:critical (adj.) backbiting; captious; carping; caviling; cavilling; cavillous; censorious; critic; critical; hypercritical; overcritical; sarcastic; severe -
90 fractious
1. a капризный; беспокойный2. a раздражительный, вздорныйa fractious person — неуживчивый человек; человек с норовом
Синонимический ряд:1. angry (adj.) angry; cantankerous; churlish; complaining; cranky; cross; cynical; testy2. insubordinate (adj.) insubordinate; rebellious; troublesome3. irritable (adj.) captious; disagreeable; fretful; huffy; irritable; peevish; pettish; petulant; prickish; prickly; querulent; querulential; querulous; raspish; raspy; snappish; snappy; twitty; waspish; waspy; whiny4. unruly (adj.) indocile; indomitable; intractable; obstreperous; recalcitrant; refractory; uncontrollable; undisciplinable; undisciplined; ungovernable; unmanageable; unruly; untoward; wildАнтонимический ряд:agreeable; amenable; cooperative; even-tempered; gentle -
91 fretful
1. a раздражительный, капризный2. a подёрнувшийся рябью3. a порывистый4. a бродящийСинонимический ряд:1. anxious (adj.) anxious; apprehensive; distressed; worried2. chafing (adj.) chafing; choleric; hot; impatient; itching; testy; unpatient; violent3. irritable (adj.) captious; disagreeable; fractious; hot-tempered; huffy; ill-tempered; irascible; irritable; peevish; peppery; pettish; petulant; prickish; prickly; querulent; querulential; querulous; quick-tempered; raspish; raspy; short-tempered; snappish; snappy; touchy; twitty; waspish; waspy; whinyАнтонимический ряд:agreeable; calm; easy-going; even-tempered; forbearing; patient -
92 invective
1. n оскорбительная, обличительная речь; выпад; инвектива; поношениеviolence of invective — грубые выпады, ожесточённые нападки
2. n брань, оскорбления3. a редк. ругательный, бранный; оскорбительныйСинонимический ряд:1. abusive (adj.) abusive; captious; censorious; contumelious; denunciatory; derogatory; insulting; offensive; opprobrious; reviling; scurrile; scurrilous; truculent; vituperative; vituperatory; vituperous2. abuse (noun) abuse; accusation; billingsgate; contumely; epithet; malediction; obloquy; railing; reproach; revilement; scorn; scurrility; vituperation3. castigation (noun) castigation; censure; denunciation; rebuke; tirade; tongue-lashing4. oath (noun) blasphemy; curse; expletive; oath; swear; swearwordАнтонимический ряд:admiration; applause; appreciation; approbation; approval; commendation; commendatory; decoration; encomium; eulogy; glorification; honour; laudation; laudatory; praise -
93 moody
1. a легко поддающийся переменам настроения2. a унылый, угрюмый3. a со скверным характеромСинонимический ряд:1. changeable (adj.) capricious; changeable; fickle; flight; impulsive; inconsistent; lively; mutable; skittish2. lugubrious (adj.) lugubrious; melancholy; saturnine; sullen3. temperamental (adj.) captious; fretful; gloomy; humorsome; ill-humored; intractable; irascible; irritable; morose; notional; sulky; temperamental; volatileАнтонимический ряд:amiable; cheerful; constant -
94 peevish
1. a сварливый, раздражительный, брюзгливыйhis state of health makes him fretful and peevish — из-за плохого состояния здоровья он стал капризным и раздражительным
2. a трудный; неуживчивыйСинонимический ряд:1. complaining (adj.) captious; complaining; crusty; disagreeable; discontented; fretful; ill-natured2. cross (adj.) acrimonious; bad-tempered; cantankerous; crabby; cranky; cross; grouchy; grumpy; hot-tempered; irascible; nasty; peppery; quarrelsome; quick-tempered; short-tempered; sour; surly; testy; touchy; waspish3. irritable (adj.) fractious; huffy; irritable; pettish; petulant; prickish; prickly; querulent; querulential; querulous; raspish; raspy; snappish; snappy; twitty; waspy; whinyАнтонимический ряд:agreeable; complacent; complaisant; good-natured -
95 pettish
a обидчивый; раздражительный; вздорныйСинонимический ряд:irritable (adj.) captious; cross; disagreeable; fractious; fretful; huffy; irritable; peevish; petulant; prickish; prickly; querulent; querulential; querulous; raspish; raspy; refractory; snappish; snappy; twitty; waspish; waspy; whiny -
96 petulant
1. a раздражительный, вздорный, всем недовольный; нетерпеливый2. a редк. дерзкий, наглый3. a раздражительный человекСинонимический ряд:irritable (adj.) acrimonious; bad-tempered; cantankerous; captious; choleric; churlish; crabby; cranky; cross; disagreeable; fractious; fretful; grouchy; grumpy; hot-headed; hot-tempered; huffy; irascible; irritable; nasty; peevish; peppery; pettish; prickish; prickly; querulent; querulential; querulous; quick-tempered; raspish; raspy; snappish; snappy; surly; testy; touchy; twitty; waspish; waspy; whinyАнтонимический ряд:even-tempered; good-natured; pleasant; temperate -
97 reproachful
1. a укоризненныйin a reproachful voice — с укоризной в голосе; укоризненным тоном
2. a уст. заслуживающий упрёка; позорный, недостойный, постыдныйСинонимический ряд:complaining (adj.) captious; carping; censorious; complaining; critical; disparaging; faultfinding; severe -
98 snappish
1. a придирчивый, раздражительный; брюзгливый, сварливый2. a резкий, грубый, отрывистый3. a злой, кусачий4. a неспокойныйСинонимический ряд:1. cross (adj.) bad-tempered; cantankerous; crabby; cranky; cross; grouchy; grumpy; hot-tempered; irascible; nasty; peppery; quick-tempered; surly; testy; touchy2. irritable (adj.) captious; disagreeable; fractious; fretful; huffy; irritable; peevish; pettish; petulant; prickish; prickly; querulent; querulential; querulous; raspish; raspy; refractory; snappy; twitty; waspish; waspy; whiny -
99 social
1. n приём, встреча, собраниеsocial event — неофициальная встреча; встреча друзей
2. n разг. вечеринка3. a общественный, социальный4. a компанейский, дружескийsocial drinking — выпивка в компании, дружеская попойка
5. a общительный6. a бытовой, относящийся к повседневной жизниsocial director of a hotel — администратор отеля, ведающий культурным обслуживанием
7. a относящийся к положению в обществе8. a светский9. a биол. общественный; стайный; стадныйsocial plants — растения, растущие группами
Синонимический ряд:1. friendly (adj.) affable; amiable; companionable; convivial; friendly; genial; gregarious; neighborly; pleasurable; sociable2. human (adj.) common; cultural; human; political; public; racial; secular; societal; worldly3. humane (adj.) altruistic; benevolent; charitable; humane; philanthropic4. polite (adj.) civil; hospitable; informative; mannerly; pleasant; polished; polite5. sociable (noun) sociable; soiree; tea partyАнтонимический ряд:antisocial; captious; crude; cynical; disagreeable; discourteous; ill-mannered; impolite; morose; secluded; severe; solitary; stern -
100 sophistical
Синонимический ряд:plausible (adj.) captious; deceptive; false; misleading; ostensible; plausible; presumable; pretentious; specious
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Captious — Cap tious, a. [F. captieux, L. captiosus. See {Caption}.] 1. Apt to catch at faults; disposed to find fault or to cavil; eager to object; difficult to please. [1913 Webster] A captious and suspicious age. Stillingfleet. [1913 Webster] I am… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
captious — [kap′shəs] adj. [ME capcious < L captiosus < CAPTION] 1. made only for the sake of argument or faultfinding [captious criticism] 2. fond of catching others in mistakes; quick to find fault; quibbling; carping SYN. CRITICAL captiously adv.… … English World dictionary
captious — index contentious, contrary, critical (faultfinding), fractious, froward, perverse, petulant, querulous … Law dictionary
captious — (adj.) c.1400, capcyus, from M.Fr. captieux (15c.), from L. captiosus fallacious, from captio (gen. captionis) a deceiving, fallacious argument, lit. a taking (in), from captus, pp. of capere to take, catch (see CAPABLE (Cf. capable)) … Etymology dictionary
captious — caviling, carping, *critical, hypercritical, faultfinding, censorious Analogous words: *contrary, perverse: exacting, demanding (see DEMAND vb): peevish, petulant, snappish, *irritable: testy, choleric, *irascible Antonyms: appreciative … New Dictionary of Synonyms
captious — [adj] very critical acrimonious, cantankerous, carping, caviling, cavillous, censorious, contrary, crabby, cross, demanding, deprecating, disparaging, exacting, exceptive, fault finding, finicky, hypercritical, irritable, nagging, nitpicking,… … New thesaurus
captious — ► ADJECTIVE formal ▪ tending to find fault or raise petty objections. DERIVATIVES captiously adverb captiousness noun. ORIGIN Old French captieux, from Latin capere take, seize ; related to CAPTION(Cf. ↑caption) … English terms dictionary
captious — adjective Etymology: Middle English capcious, from Middle French or Latin; Middle French captieux, from Latin captiosus, from captio deception, verbal quibble, from capere to take more at heave Date: 14th century 1. marked by an often ill natured … New Collegiate Dictionary
captious — captiously, adv. captiousness, n. /kap sheuhs/, adj. 1. apt to notice and make much of trivial faults or defects; faultfinding; difficult to please. 2. proceeding from a faultfinding or caviling disposition: He could never praise without adding a … Universalium
captious — /ˈkæpʃəs / (say kapshuhs) adjective 1. apt to make much of trivial faults or defects; fault finding; difficult to please. 2. proceeding from a fault finding or cavilling disposition: captious remarks. 3. apt or designed to ensnare or perplex,… …
captious — adjective Having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections. 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. Syn … Wiktionary