Synonyms for censorious
- adjective
All synonyms
Adjective
1. Condemnatory — implying or expressing censure
condemnatory, critical, vituperative, invective, disapproving, condemning, reproachful, damnatory, improbatory, disapprobatory, abusive, reprehensive
Other
carping, hypercritical, fastidious, captious, overcritical, censorial
Definitions
- adj. 1
Implying or expressing censure.
Related words
- Word family
- censoriously
- Other spellings
- censurious
Example sentences
- disapproving Ziri looked at Rima with disapproving eyes.
- invective Her so-called essay was actually an invective against the entire academy.
- fastidious He's very fastidious when it comes to booking trips.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| censorious | rising | |
| disapproving | steady | |
| invective | steady | |
| vituperative | steady | |
| condemnatory | steady | |
| fastidious | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 7 letters
- abusive3, carping2
- 8 letters
- critical3, captious
- 9 letters
- invective3, censorial, damnatory
- 10 letters
- condemning3, fastidious4
- 11 letters
- reproachful, improbatory
- 12 letters
- disapproving4, condemnatory, vituperative5, overcritical, reprehensive
- 13 letters
- hypercritical5
- 14 letters
- disapprobatory
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (abusive3 = 3 syllables).