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captious vs critical

critical vs captious

captious and critical both are adjectives.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
captious No Yes No No
critical No Yes No No
captious (adjective) critical (adjective)
tending to find and call attention to faults marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws
characterized by careful evaluation and judgment
being in or verging on a state of crisis or emergency
at or of a point at which a property or phenomenon suffers an abrupt change especially having enough mass to sustain a chain reaction
of or involving or characteristic of critics or criticism
forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis
urgently needed; absolutely necessary
Difference between captious and critical

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