'Censorious' definitions:
Definition of 'censorious'
From: WordNet
adjective
Harshly critical or expressing censure; "was censorious of petty failings"
Definition of 'Censorious'
From: GCIDE
- Censorious \Cen*so"ri*ous\, a. [L. censorius pertaining to the censor. See Censor.]
- 1. Addicted to censure; apt to blame or condemn; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners. [1913 Webster]
- A dogmatical spirit inclines a man to be consorious of his neighbors. --Watts. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'censorious'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abusive,
- accusatory,
- back-biting,
- belittling,
- bitchy,
- blackening,
- blameful,
- calumniatory,
- calumnious,
- captious,
- carping,
- catty,
- caviling,
- chiding,
- choicy,
- choosy,
- condemnatory,
- conscientious,
- contemptuous,
- contumelious,
- critic,
- critical,
- damnatory,
- defamatory,
- demure,
- denunciatory,
- deprecative,
- deprecatory,
- depreciative,
- depreciatory,
- derisive,
- derisory,
- derogative,
- derogatory,
- detractory,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- disparaging,
- exacting,
- execrating,
- execrative,
- execratory,
- fastidious,
- faultfinding,
- hidebound,
- hypercritical,
- invective,
- inveighing,
- judgmental,
- libelous,
- meticulous,
- mid-Victorian,
- minimizing,
- narrow,
- objurgatory,
- old-maidish,
- overcritical,
- overmodest,
- particular,
- pejorative,
- perfectionistic,
- picky,
- precise,
- precisianistic,
- priggish,
- prim,
- proscriptive,
- prudish,
- punctilious,
- puristic,
- puritanic,
- puritanical,
- Quakerish,
- reproachful,
- reprobative,
- reviling,
- ridiculing,
- sanctimonious,
- scandalous,
- scoffing,
- scrupulous,
- scurrile,
- scurrilous,
- selective,
- sensitive,
- slanderous,
- slighting,
- smug,
- stiff-necked,
- straitlaced,
- strict,
- stuffy,
- Victorian,
- vilifying,
- vituperative