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Showing words for CARPING using the English dictionary

7 Letter Words for Carping

carping, craping

6 Letter Words for Carping

arcing, caping, caprin, caring, pacing, paring, racing, raping

5 Letter Words for Carping

acing, agric, agrin, aping, argin, cairn, capri, carpi, cigar, craig, crain, crang, garni, grain, graip, incra, naric, ngapi, nigra, pagri, pangi, panic, picra, prang, rapic

4 Letter Words for Carping

agin, agni, airn, arni, cain, cair, cang, capi, carn, carp, cira, crag, cran, crap, crig, crin, crip, gain, gair, gari, garn, girn, gnar, gran, grin, grip, inca, incr, inga, iran, nagi, naig, narc, ngai, nipa, pain, pair, pang, parc, pari, pian, pica, pina, ping, pirn, prag, prig, prin, ragi, rain, rang, riga, ring, ripa

3 Letter Words for Carping

agr, ain, air, anc, apc, apr, arc, arg, arn, cag, cai, can, cap, car, cia, cig, cir, cpa, cpi, cpr, gan, gap, gar, gin, gnp, gra, ign, inc, ing, ipr, ira, nag, nap, nar, nig, nip, pac, pan, par, pci, pia, pic, pig, pin, pir, prc, prn, rag, rai, ran, rap, ria, rig, rin, rip, rna

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