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We found 29 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word cavil:
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General dictionaries General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. cavil: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
  2. cavil: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  3. cavil: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  4. cavil: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  5. Cavil: Wiktionary [home, info]
  6. cavil: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  7. cavil: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  8. cavil: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  9. Cavil, cavil: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  10. cavil: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  11. cavil: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  12. Cavil: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  13. cavil: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  14. cavil: Rhymezone [home, info]
  15. Cavil: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  16. cavil: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  17. cavil: Hutchinson's Dictionary of Difficult Words [home, info]
  18. cavil: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  19. cavil: Hutchinson Dictionaries [home, info]
  20. cavil: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words [home, info]
  21. cavil: Luciferous Logolepsy [home, info]
  22. cavil: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  23. cavil: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  24. cavil: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  25. cavil: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. CAVIL: Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition [home, info]
  2. cavil: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cavil: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cavil: Wordcraft Dictionary [home, info]

Quick definitions (cavil)

noun:  an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections
verb:  raise trivial objections

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Words similar to cavil:   carp, caviled, caviler, caviling, cavilled, caviller, cavilling, chicane, beef, complain, object, quibble, more...


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