All cavillous synonyms

adjective cavillous

• acrimonious — Acrimonious words or quarrels are bitter and angry.
• cantankerous — Someone who is cantankerous is always finding things to argue or complain about.
• carping — tending to make petty complaints; fault-finding
• caviling — Present participle of cavil.
• censorious — If you describe someone as censorious, you do not like the way they strongly disapprove of and criticize someone else's behaviour.
• contrary — Ideas, attitudes, or reactions that are contrary to each other are completely different from each other.
• crabby — Someone who is crabby is bad-tempered and unpleasant to people.
• cross — If you cross something such as a room, a road, or an area of land or water, you move or travel to the other side of it. If you cross to a place, you move or travel over a room, road, or area of land or water in order to reach that place.
• demanding — A demanding job or task requires a lot of your time, energy, or attention.
• disparaging — that disparages; tending to belittle or bring reproach upon: a disparaging remark.
• fault-finding — the act of pointing out faults, especially faults of a petty nature; carping.
• finicky — excessively particular or fastidious; difficult to please; fussy.
• hypercritical — excessively or meticulously critical; overcritical.
• irritable — easily irritated or annoyed; readily excited to impatience or anger.
• nagging — continually faultfinding, complaining, or petulant: a nagging parent.
• nit-picking — to be excessively concerned with or critical of inconsequential details.
• overcritical — excessively critical; hypercritical.
• peevish — cross, querulous, or fretful, as from vexation or discontent: a peevish youngster.
• perverse — willfully determined or disposed to go counter to what is expected or desired; contrary.
• sarcastic — of, relating to, or characterized by sarcasm: a sarcastic reply.
• severe — harsh; unnecessarily extreme: severe criticism; severe laws.
• testy — irritably impatient; touchy.
• touchy — apt to take offense on slight provocation; irritable: He is very touchy when he's sick.
• accusatory — An accusatory look, remark, or tone of voice suggests blame or criticism.
• captious — apt to make trivial criticisms; fault-finding; carping
• chiding — to express disapproval of; scold; reproach: The principal chided the children for their thoughtless pranks.
• complaining — to express dissatisfaction, pain, uneasiness, censure, resentment, or grief; find fault: He complained constantly about the noise in the corridor.
• condemnatory — Condemnatory means expressing strong disapproval.
• critical — If a person is critical or in a critical condition in hospital, they are seriously ill.
• detracting — to take away a part, as from quality, value, or reputation (usually followed by from).
• analytical — An analytical way of doing something involves the use of logical reasoning.
• biting — Biting wind or cold is extremely cold.
• calumniatory — of, involving, or using calumny; slanderous; defamatory.
• censuring — strong or vehement expression of disapproval: The newspapers were unanimous in their censure of the tax proposal.
• choleric — A choleric person gets angry very easily. You can also use choleric to describe a person who is very angry.
• critic — A critic is a person who writes about and expresses opinions about things such as books, films, music, or art.
• cutting — A cutting is a piece of writing which has been cut from a newspaper or magazine.
• cynical — If you describe someone as cynical, you mean they believe that people always act selfishly.
• demeaning — Something that is demeaning makes people have less respect for the person who is treated in that way, or who does that thing.
• derogatory — If you make a derogatory remark or comment about someone or something, you express your low opinion of them.
• diagnostic — Diagnostic equipment, methods, or systems are used for discovering what is wrong with people who are ill or with things that do not work properly.
• discerning — showing good or outstanding judgment and understanding: a discerning critic of French poetry.
• discriminating — to make or constitute a distinction in or between; differentiate: a mark that discriminates the original from the copy.
• fussy — excessively busy with trifles; anxious or particular about petty details.
• hairsplitting — the making of unnecessarily fine distinctions.
• humbling — not proud or arrogant; modest: to be humble although successful.
• lowering — comparative of low1 .
• niggling — petty; trivial; inconsequential: to quibble about a niggling difference in terminology.
• particular — of or relating to a single or specific person, thing, group, class, occasion, etc., rather than to others or all; special rather than general: one's particular interests in books.
• penetrating — able or tending to penetrate; piercing; sharp: a penetrating shriek; a penetrating glance.