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Definitions for Carping
[1] characterized by fussy or petulant faultfinding; querulous: carping criticism.
[2] petty faultfinding.
[3] to find fault or complain querulously or unreasonably; be niggling in criticizing; cavil: to carp at minor errors.
[4] a peevish complaint.
[5] tending to make petty complaints; fault-finding
[6] (intr often foll by at ) to complain or find fault; nag pettily
[7] a freshwater teleost food fish, Cyprinus carpio, having a body covered with cycloid scales, a naked head, one long dorsal fin, and two barbels on each side of the mouth: family Cyprinidae
[8] any other fish of the family Cyprinidae; a cyprinid
Words related to Carping
nagging, niggling, disparaging, quibbling, grumbling, whining, grousing, griping, moaning, censorious, critical, fault-finding, grouchy, hypercritical, scathing, deprecatory, overcritical, nit-picking
Words nearby Carping
carpeting, carpetweed, carphenazine maleate, carphology, carpi, carping, carpinteria, carpo, carpo-, carpocarpal, carpogonium
Origin of Carping
11200–50; Middle English carpen to speak, prate < Old Norse karpa to brag, wrangle
Other words from Carping
carp·ing·ly , adverb
carp·er , noun
Related adjectives: cyprinid, cyprinoid
Word origin for Carping
C14: from Old French carpe, of Germanic origin; compare Old High German karpfo, Old Norse karfi
Synonyms for Carping
bellyaching, caviling, criticizing, disparaging, griping, grousing, grumbling, kvetching, moaning, nagging, niggling, quibbling, whining, censorious, critical, deprecatory, fault-finding, grouchy, hypercritical, nit-picking, overcritical, scathing