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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-764/
- Published: 2022-03-03T17:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-01-05T18:24:42.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: NZ, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 01:12

The word for today is…

captious (adjective):

1 : marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections  
2 : calculated to confuse, entrap, or entangle in argument  
  
Source :[ Merriam -Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/captious?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : Captious comes from Latin captio, which refers to a deception or verbal quibble. Arguments labeled captious are likely to “capture” a person; they often entrap through subtly deceptive reasoning or trifling points. A captious individual is one who might also be dubbed “hypercritical,” the sort of carping, censorious critic only too ready to point out minor faults and raise objections on trivial grounds.

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