captieux
See also: Captieux
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Late Latin captiōsus.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
captieux (feminine captieuse, masculine plural captieux, feminine plural captieuses)
- specious, misleading, sophist
- Synonyms: spécieux, fallacieux
Usage notes edit
False friend of English captious.
Further reading edit
- “captieux”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.