faultfinding

Other forms of faultfinding

plural

faultfindings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about faultfinding

What does faultfinding mean?

faultfinding means "tending to make moral judgments or judgments based on personal opinions". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in faultfinding?

faultfinding has 3 syllables: fault-fin-ding. The stress falls on "fault".

What is another word for faultfinding?

Close synonyms include captious, carping. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is faultfinding a common word?

faultfinding 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.