censorious

1. 1.

   harshly critical or expressing censure

   “was censorious of petty failings”

   Similarcritical

Questions about censorious

What does censorious mean?

censorious means "harshly critical or expressing censure".

How many syllables are in censorious?

censorious has 4 syllables and divides as cen-so-ri-ous under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is censorious a common word?

censorious is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.