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- DictionaryCarp·ing/ˈkärpiNG/
adjective
- 1. continually complaining or finding fault about trivial matters; difficult to please: "she has silenced the carping critics with a successful debut tour"
noun
- 1. continual complaining or finding fault about trivial matters: "he did not enjoy the constant carping of reviewers"
Carping is an adjective that means marked by or inclined to querulous and often perverse criticism. Learn more about its synonyms, examples, word history, and usage from Merriam-Webster dictionary.
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Carping is the act of complaining all the time about matters that are not important, or a person who does this. Learn more about the meaning, pronunciation and usage of carping with examples from the Cambridge English Corpus.
Some common synonyms of carping are captious, censorious, critical, faultfinding, and hypercritical. While all these words mean "inclined to look for and point out faults and defects," carping implies an ill-natured or perverse picking of flaws.
- The words captious and carping are synonyms, but do differ in nuance. Specifically, captious suggests a readiness to detect trivial faults or raise...
- While the synonyms censorious and carping are close in meaning, censorious implies a disposition to be severely critical and condemnatory. // the c...
- While in some cases nearly identical to carping, critical may also imply an effort to see a thing clearly and truly in order to judge it fairly. //...
- In some situations, the words faultfinding and carping are roughly equivalent. However, faultfinding implies a querulous or exacting temperament. /...
- The meanings of hypercritical and carping largely overlap; however, hypercritical suggests a tendency to judge by unreasonably strict standards. //...
Carping is the act of complaining all the time about matters that are not important, or a person who does so. Learn more about the word, its pronunciation and usage with examples from the Cambridge Dictionary.
Carping is petty and unjustified criticism that just won’t stop. People who find fault with you at every turn, who appreciate nothing and complain, complain, complain, are carping.
Carping means being fussy or petulant in finding faults or complaining. It can be used as an adjective or a noun. See the origin, derived forms, and usage examples of carping.
Carping means naggingly critical or complaining, or tending to make petty complaints. Find out the origin, usage, and translations of this adjective, and see examples and related words.
