Captious vs Passionate - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) That captures; especially, (of an argument, words etc.) designed to capture or entrap in misleading arguments; sophistical.
* 1605 , (William Shakespeare), :
* 1784 , (William Cowper), "A Review of Schools", in Poems , 1859 ed.,
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Having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections; cavilling, nitpicky
* 1968 , Sidney Monas, translating Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment (1866):
* 2009 , Anne Karpf, The Guardian , 24 Jan 2009:
Given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic and/or sexual.
Fired with intense feeling; ardent, blazing, burning.
* Prior
(obsolete) Suffering; sorrowful.
* 1596 , , II. i. 544:
* 1599 , , I. ii. 124:
(obsolete) To fill with passion, or with another given emotion.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.xii:
(obsolete) To express with great emotion.
* 1607 , , III. ii. 6:
In obsolete terms the difference between captious and passionate
is that captious is that captures; especially, (of an argument, words etc.) designed to capture or entrap in misleading arguments; sophistical while passionate is to express with great emotion.As a noun passionate is
a passionate individual.As a verb passionate is
to fill with passion, or with another given emotion.captious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I know I loue in vaine, striue against hope: / Yet in this captious , and intemible Siue / I still poure in the waters of my loue / And lacke not to loose still.
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- A captious question, sir, and yours is one, / Deserves an answer similar, or none.
- But Peter Petrovich did not accept this retort. On the contrary, he became all the more captious and irritable, as though he were just hitting his stride.
- The "Our Bold" column, nitpicking at errors in other periodicals, can look merely captious , and its critics often seem to be wildly and collectively wrong-headed.
Synonyms
* (disposed to find fault) faultfinding, nitpicky, carping, critical, hypercritical * (tending to capture or entrap) tricky, thorny; sophisticalDerived terms
* captiously * captiousnessAnagrams
*passionate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Homer's Achilles is haughty and passionate .
- She is sad and passionate at your highness' tent.
- Poor, forlorn Proteus, passionate Proteus,
Synonyms
* (fired with intense feeling) ardent, blazing, burning, dithyrambic, fervent, fervid, fiery, flaming, glowing, heated, hot-blooded, hotheaded, impassioned, perfervid, red-hot, scorching, torrid.Verb
(passionat)- Great pleasure mixt with pittifull regard, / That godly King and Queene did passionate [...].
- Thy niece and I, poor creatures, want our hands / And cannot passionate our tenfold grief / with folded arms.