Word Meanings - CARP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To talk; to speak; to prattle. Chaucer. 2. To find fault; to cavil; to censure words or actions without reason or ill-naturedly; -- usually followed by at. Carping and caviling at faults of manner. Blackw. Mag. And at my actions carp or catch.

Additional info about word: CARP

1. To talk; to speak; to prattle. Chaucer. 2. To find fault; to cavil; to censure words or actions without reason or ill-naturedly; -- usually followed by at. Carping and caviling at faults of manner. Blackw. Mag. And at my actions carp or catch. Herbert.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CARP)

• Nibble
• Carp
• cavil
• peck
• object
• demur

Related words: (words related to CARP)

• DEMURE
  good manners); de of + murs, mours, meurs, mors, F. m, fr. L. mores manners, morals ; or more prob. fr. OF. meür, F. mûr mature, ripe in a phrase preceded by de, as de 1. Of sober or serious mien; composed and decorous in bearing; of modest
• OBJECTIVENESS
  Objectivity. Is there such a motion or objectiveness of external bodies, which produceth light Sir M. Hale
• OBJECTIST
  One who adheres to, or is skilled in, the objective philosophy. Ed. Rev.
• OBJECT
  before, to oppose; ob + jacere to throw: cf. objecter. See 1. To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose. Of less account some knight thereto object, Whose loss so great and harmful can not prove. Fairfax. Some strong
• OBJECTIVATE
  To objectify.
• DEMURRABLE
  That may be demurred to. Stormonth.
• CAVIL; CAVILER; CAVILLER
  One who cavils. Cavilers at the style of the Scriptures. Boyle.
• OBJECTLESS
  Having no object; purposeless.
• DEMURENESS
  The state of being demure; gravity; the show of gravity or modesty.
• DEMUR
  To interpose a demurrer. See Demurrer, 2. (more info) fr. L. demorari; de- + morari to delay, tarry, stay, mora delay; prob. originally, time for thinking, reflection, and akin to memor 1. To linger; to stay; to tarry. Yet durst not demur nor abide
• NIBBLE
  To bite by little at a time; to seize gently with the mouth; to eat slowly or in small bits. Thy turfy mountains, where live nibbling sheep. Shak. (more info) Etym:
• OBJECTIVITY
  The state, quality, or relation of being objective; character of the object or of the objective. The calm, the cheerfulness, the disinterested objectivity have disappeared . M. Arnold.
• DEMURELY
  In a demure manner; soberly; gravely; -- now, commonly, with a mere show of gravity or modesty. They . . . looked as demurely as they could; for 't was a hanging matter to laugh unseasonably. Dryden.
• CAVILOUS; CAVILLOUS
  Characterized by caviling, or disposed to cavil; quibbing. -- Cav"il*ous*ly, adv. -- Cav"il*ous*ness, n.
• CAVILLATION
  Frivolous or sophistical objection. Hooker.
• DEMURRAGE
  The detention of a vessel by the freighter beyond the time allowed in her charter party for loading, unloading, or sailing. The allowance made to the master or owner of the ship for such delay or detention. The claim for demurrage ceases as soon
• CAVIL
  To raise captious and frivolous objections; to find fault without good reason. You do not well in obstinacy To cavil in the course of this contract. Shak.
• OBJECTIZE
  To make an object of; to regard as an object; to place in the position of an object. In the latter, as objectized by the former, arise the emotions and affections. Coleridge.
• CAVILING
  Disposed to cavil; finding fault without good reason. See Captious. His depreciatory and caviling criticism. Lewis.
• OBJECTION
  1. The act of objecting; as, to prevent agreement, or action, by objection. Johnson. 2. That which is, or may be, presented in opposition; an adverse reason or argument; a reason for objecting; obstacle; impediment; as, I have no objection