cavillous

English

Alternative forms

• cavilous

Etymology

Latin cavillosus.

Adjective

cavillous (comparative more cavillous, superlative most cavillous)

1. Characterized by caviling, or disposed to cavil; quibbling.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cavillous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)