EXCEPTIOUS

Date "EXCEPTIOUS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1700. (references)

Note: Exceptious \Ex*cep"tious\, adjective. Disposed or apt to take exceptions, or to object; captious. [obsolete]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms within Context: EXCEPTIOUS

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Irascibility	Querulous, captious, moodish; quarrelsome, contentious, disputatious; pugnacious; (bellicose); cantankerous, exceptious; restiff; (perverse) a; churlish; (discourteous).
Sullenness	Cross, crossgrained; perverse, wayward, humorsome; restiff, restive; cantankerous, intractable, exceptious, sinistrous, deaf to reason, unaccommodating, rusty, froward; cussed.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Rhyming with "EXCEPTIOUS"

Words rhyming with "EXCEPTIOUS" (pronounced 'Ex*cep"tious'): Ablatitious, Abstentious, Abstractitious, Addititious, Adjectitious, Adoptious, Adscititious, Adventitious, Ambitious, Arreptitious, Ascititious, Ascriptitious, Bumptious, Captious, Cautious, Cementitious, Cineritious, Collatitious, Combustious, Commentitious, Compunctious, Conceptious, Concupiscentious, Connutritious, Conscientious, Contentious, Deceptious, Defectious, Deglutitious, Deletitious, Detractious, Direptitious, Disputatious, Dissentious, Distractious, Emissitious, Exemptitious, Expeditious, Extortious, Facetious, Factious, Factitious, Fictious, flagitious, fractious, Impropitious, incautious, Inimicitious, Innutritious, Inventious. (additional references)

Anagrams: EXCEPTIOUS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-o-p-s-t-u-x"
	-2 letters: picotees.
	-3 letters: coesite, coexist, cutesie, epoxies, excepts, excites, exotics, expects, exposit, piceous, picotee, piteous, poetics, poetise, toupees.
	-4 letters: cestoi, coitus, copies, coupes, cuties, except, excise, excite, excuse, exotic, expect, expose, exsect, optics, outsee, picots, pieces, poetic, potsie, septic, sexpot, sopite, specie, topees, topics, toupee, toxics.
	-5 letters: cepes, cesti, cetes, cites, copes, copse, coset, cosie.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-o-p-s-t-u-x"
	+2 letters: executorship.
	+3 letters: executorships.
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