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cavillous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
cav-il-lous
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

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

Etymology

From Latin cavillosus.

Inflected Forms

more cavillous (comparative) most cavillous (superlative) cavilous (alternative)

Questions

What does cavillous mean?
prone to caviling, or disposed to cavil; quibbling, bickering.
Where does cavillous come from?
From Latin cavillosus.

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