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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

overcaptious

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
over-cap-tious
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Excessively captious.

Etymology

From over- + captious.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

more overcaptious (comparative) most overcaptious (superlative)

Questions

What does overcaptious mean?
Excessively captious.
Where does overcaptious come from?
From over- + captious.

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