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cavillous

cavillous adjective: prone to caviling, or disposed to cavil; quibbling, bickering.

Adjective

cavillous (comparative more cavillous, superlative most cavillous)

  1. prone to caviling, or disposed to cavil; quibbling, bickering.

Forms of cavillous

comparativemore cavillous
superlativemost cavillous
alternative formcavilous

Origin of cavillous

From Latin cavillosus.

Questions about cavillous

What does cavillous mean?
Cavillous means prone to caviling, or disposed to cavil; quibbling, bickering.
What part of speech is cavillous?
Cavillous is an adjective.

Words near cavillous in the dictionary

  1. cavilled
  2. caviller
  3. cavillers
  4. cavilling
  5. cavillings
  6. cavillous
  7. cavils
  8. cavimorph
  9. cavimorphs
  10. cavin
  11. Cavina

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