| Main Entry: | captious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very critical |
Synonyms: |
acrimonious, cantankerous, carping, caviling, cavillous, censorious, contrary, crabby, cross, demanding, deprecating, disparaging, exacting, exceptive, fault-finding, finicky, hypercritical, irritable, nagging, nit-picking, overcritical, peevish, perverse, petulant, sarcastic, severe, testy, touchy |
Antonyms: |
commendatory, complimentary, encouraging, flattering, laudatory, praising |
| Main Entry: | cantankerous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult, crabby |
Synonyms: |
bad-tempered, bearish, captious, choleric, contrary, cranky, critical, cross, crotchety, crusty, disagreeable, dour, grouchy, grumpy*, huffy, ill-humored, ill-natured, irascible, irritable, morose, obstinate, ornery*, peevish, perverse, petulant, prickly, quarrelsome, snappish, sour, stuffy, testy, vinegarish, vinegary |
Antonyms: |
easy, good-natured, happy, nice, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | censorious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very critical |
Synonyms: |
accusatory, captious, carping, caviling, cavillous, chiding, complaining, condemnatory, condemning, critical, culpatory, denouncing, disapproving, disparaging, fault-finding, hypercritical, overcritical, reprehending, reproaching, severe |
Antonyms: |
complimentary, encouraging, flattering, laudatory, praising |
| Main Entry: | crabby/crabbed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in a bad mood |
Synonyms: |
acid, acrid, acrimonious, awkward, bad-tempered, blunt, brusque, captious, choleric, churlish, cranky*, cross, crotchety, crusty, cynical, difficult, dour, fretful, gloomy, glum, grouchy, harsh, huffy, ill-humored, ill-tempered, irascible, irritable, misanthropic, morose, nasty-tempered, peevish, perverse, petulant, prickly, saturnine, snappish, snappy, sour, splenetic, sulky, sullen, surly, tart, testy, tough, trying, unsociable |
Antonyms: |
happy |
| Main Entry: | critical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fault-finding, detracting |
Synonyms: |
analytical, belittling, biting, calumniatory, captious, carping, caviling, cavillous, censorious, censuring, choleric, condemning, critic, cutting, cynical, demanding, demeaning, derogatory, diagnostic, disapproving, discerning, discriminating, disparaging, exacting, exceptive, finicky, fussy, hairsplitting, humbling, hypercritical, lowering, nagging, niggling, nit-picking, overcritical, particular, penetrating, reproachful, sarcastic, satirical, scolding, severe, sharp, trenchant, withering |
Antonyms: |
complimentary, laudatory, praising |
| Main Entry: | cross |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very angry; in a bad mood |
Synonyms: |
annoyed, cantankerous, captious, caviling, choleric, churlish, crabby, cranky, crotchety, crusty, disagreeable, faultfinding, fractious, fretful, grouchy, grumpy, ill-humored, ill-tempered, impatient, irascible, irritable, jumpy, out of humor, peeved, peevish, pettish, petulant, put out, querulous, quick-tempered, ratty, short, snappy, splenetic, sullen, surly, testy, tetchy, touchy, vexed, waspish |
Antonyms: |
animated, cheerful, happy, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | crusty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irritable, often due to old age |
Synonyms: |
abrupt, bluff, blunt, brief, brusque, cantankerous, captious, choleric, crabbed, crabby, cranky, cross, curt, dour, gruff, harsh, ill-humored, irascible, peevish, prickly, sarcastic, saturnine, scornful, short, short-tempered, snappish, snarling, snippety, snippy, splenetic, surly, testy, touchy, vinegary |
Antonyms: |
cheerful, happy, nice, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | disputatious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | argumentative |
Synonyms: |
cantankerous, captious, caviling, contentious, controversial, dissentious, litigious, polemical, pugnacious, quarrelsome |
Antonyms: |
agreeable, calm, peaceful |
| Main Entry: | fastidious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very careful, meticulous |
Synonyms: |
captious, choosy, critical, dainty, demanding, difficult, discriminating, easily disgusted, exacting, finical, finicky, fussbudgety, fussy, hard to please, hypercritical, nice, nit-picky, overdelicate, overnice, particular, persnickety*, picky, punctilious, queasy, squeamish, stickling |
Antonyms: |
indifferent, indiscriminating, uncareful, uncouth, uncritical, undemanding |
| Main Entry: | fault-finding |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | critical |
Synonyms: |
captious, carping, fussy, hairsplitting, hard to please, hypercritical, nagging, niggling, nit-picking, overcritical, pettifogging, quibbling |