Word Meanings - CENSORIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Addicted to censure; apt to blame or condemn; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners. A dogmatical spirit inclines a man to be consorious of his neighbors. Watts. 2. Implying or expressing censure; as, censorious

Additional info about word: CENSORIOUS

1. Addicted to censure; apt to blame or condemn; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners. A dogmatical spirit inclines a man to be consorious of his neighbors. Watts. 2. Implying or expressing censure; as, censorious remarks. Syn. -- Fault-finding; carping; caviling; captious; severe; condemnatory; hypercritical. -- Cen*so"ri*ous*ly, adv. -- Cen*so"ri*ous*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CENSORIOUS)

• Biting
• Pungent
• censorious
• piercing
• gnawing
• sarcastic
• sardonic
• trenchant
• Captious
• Carping
• caviling
• hypercritical
• cross
• fault-finding
• critical
• cynical
• petulant
• irritable
• splenetic
• touchy
• peevish
• fretful
• Critical
• Nice
• delicate
• exact
• fastidious
• discriminating
• accurate
• dubious
• precarious
• ticklish
• crucial
• important
• momentous
• hazardous
• Fastidious
• overnice
• overrefined
• punctillious
• particular
• squeamish
• dainty
• Severe
• Serious
• austere
• stern
• grave
• strict
• harsh
• rigid
• rigorous
• sharp
• afflictive
• distressing
• violent
• extreme
• caustic
• cutting
• keen
• bitter
• cruel

Related words: (words related to CENSORIOUS)

• SERIOUS
  1. Grave in manner or disposition; earnest; thoughtful; solemn; not light, gay, or volatile. He is always serious, yet there is about his manner a graceful ease. Macaulay. 2. Really intending what is said; being in earnest; not jesting
• HYPERCRITICALLY
  In a hypercritical manner.
• STERNFOREMOST
  With the stern, instead of the bow, in advance; hence, figuratively, in an awkward, blundering manner. A fatal genius for going sternforemost. Lowell.
• GRAVES
  The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
• ACCURATENESS
  The state or quality of being accurate; accuracy; exactness; nicety; precision.
• CARPET
  packing cloth, rug , LL. carpeta, carpita, woolly cloths, fr. L. carpere to pluck, to card ; cf. 1. A heavy woven or felted fabric, usually of wool, but also of cotton, hemp, straw, etc.; esp. a floor covering made in breadths to be
• CARPOGENIC
  Productive of fruit, or causing fruit to be developed.
• CROSSLY
  Athwart; adversely; unfortunately; peevishly; fretfully; with ill humor.
• STERNUTATORY
  Sternutative. -- n.
• CROSS-EXAMINER
  One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination.
• BITTERWEED
  A species of Ambrosia ; Roman worm wood. Gray.
• GRAVEDIGGER
  See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves.
• CROSSJACK
  The lowest square sail, or the lower yard of the mizzenmast.
• DUBIOUSNESS
  State of being dubious.
• SHARPLY
  In a sharp manner,; keenly; acutely. They are more sharply to be chastised and reformed than the rude Irish. Spenser. The soldiers were sharply assailed with wants. Hayward. You contract your eye when you would see sharply. Bacon.
• BITTERSWEET
  1. Anything which is bittersweet. 2. A kind of apple so called. Gower. A climbing shrub, with oval coral-red berries (Solanum dulcamara); woody nightshade. The whole plant is poisonous, and has a taste at first sweetish and then bitter.
• CROSSOPTERYGIAN
  Of or pertaining to the Crossopterygii. -- n.
• EXACTOR
  One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands. Jer. Taylor.
• BITUME
  Bitumen. May.
• CROSSBRED
  Produced by mixing distinct breeds; mongrel.
• HOBIT
  A small mortar on a gun carriage, in use before the howitzer.
• BITE
  bizan, G. beissen, Goth. beitan, Icel. bita, Sw. bita, Dan. bide, L. 1. To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple; to bite a crust; the dog bit a man.
• REHIBITION
  The returning of a thing purchased to the seller, on the ground of defect or frand.
• INHABITATE
  To inhabit.
• INHIBITORY
  Of or pertaining to, or producing, inhibition; consisting in inhibition; tending or serving to inhibit; as, the inhibitory action of the pneumogastric on the respiratory center. I would not have you consider these criticisms as inhibitory. Lamb.
• ARBITRESS
  A female arbiter; an arbitratrix. Milton.
• TRILOBITE
  Any one of numerous species of extinct arthropods belonging to the order Trilobita. Trilobites were very common in the Silurian and Devonian periods, but became extinct at the close of the Paleozoic. So named from the three lobes usually seen on
• DISCUBITORY
  Leaning; fitted for a reclining posture. Sir T. Browne.
• LACROSSE
  A game of ball, originating among the North American Indians, now the popular field sport of Canada, and played also in England and the United States. Each player carries a long-handled racket, called a "crosse". The ball is not handled but caught
• ASTRICT
  To restrict the tenure of; as, to astrict lands. See Astriction, 4. Burrill. (more info) 1. To bind up; to confine; to constrict; to contract. The solid parts were to be relaxed or astricted. Arbuthnot. 2. To bind; to constrain; to restrict; to