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critical vs captious

captious vs critical

critical and captious both are adjectives.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
critical No Yes No No
captious No Yes No No
critical (adjective) captious (adjective)
marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws tending to find and call attention to faults
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 critical and captious

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