What is another word for "captious"?
Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "captious": and, arbitrary, blow, boutade, brain, camel, capriccio, caprice, capricious, chase, cold, contrary, crotchet, crotchety, deuce, eccentric, erratic, escapade, fad, fanciful, fancy, fantastic, fast, fickle, fit, fitful, flimflam, foolish, freak, freakish, frivolous, full, giddy, gnat, have, head, him, hot, humor, humorsome.
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- Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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