Synonyms for exceptive
- acrimonious
- cantankerous
- carping
- caviling
- cavillous
- censorious
- contrary
- crabby
- cross
- demanding
- deprecating
- disparaging
- exacting
- fault-finding
- finicky
- hypercritical
- irritable
- nagging
- nit-picking
- overcritical
- peevish
- perverse
- petulant
- sarcastic
- severe
- testy
- touchy
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Antonyms for exceptive
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EXAMPLES FROM THE WEB FOR EXCEPTIVE
This exceptive compliment to his skill was not so acceptable to the Doctor, whose passion boiled over at the new indignity.
Is it not announced as a general maxim, to which there can be no exceptive case, Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof?
MORE RELATED WORDS FOR EXCEPTIVE
captious
adjectivevery criticalcritical
adjectiveurgently importantovercritical
adjectivecritical- analytical
- belittling
- biting
- calumniatory
- captious
- carping
- caviling
- cavillous
- censorious
- censuring
- choleric
- condemning
- critic
- cutting
- cynical
- demanding
- demeaning
- derogatory
- diagnostic
- disapproving
- discerning
- discriminating
- disparaging
- exacting
- exceptive
- faultfinding
- finicky
- fussy
- hairsplitting
- humbling
- hypercritical
- lowering
- nagging
- niggling
- nit-picking
- particular
- penetrating
- reproachful
- sarcastic
- satirical
- scolding
- severe
- sharp
- trenchant
- withering
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
Philip Lief Group.