Synonyms for critic
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : krit-ik |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈkrɪt ɪk |
Top 10 synonyms for critic Other synonyms for the word critic
- aristarch
- attacker
- backseat driver
- belittler
- blamer
- caricaturist
- carper
- caviler
- censor
- censurer
- complainant
- complainer
- connoisseur
- defamer
- diagnostic
- disapprover
- disparager
- disputer
- doubter
- evaluator
- expositor
- fretter
- hypercritic
- maligner
- muckraker
- mud-slinger
- nagger
- nit-picker
- panner
- quibbler
- reviler
- scolder
- sharpshooter
- sidewalk superintendent
- slanderer
- vilifier
- worrier
- zapper
Définition of critic
Origin :- 1580s, "one who passes judgment," from Middle French critique (14c.), from Latin criticus "a judge, literary critic," from Greek kritikos "able to make judgments," from krinein "to separate, decide" (see crisis). Meaning "one who judges merits of books, plays, etc." is from c.1600. The English word always had overtones of "censurer, faultfinder."
- To understand how the artist felt, however, is not criticism; criticism is an investigation of what the work is good for. ... Criticism ... is a serious and public function; it shows the race assimilating the individual, dividing the immortal from the mortal part of a soul. [George Santayana, "The Life of Reason," 1906]A perfect judge will read each work of witWith the same spirit that its author writ;[Pope, "An Essay on Criticism," 1709]
- noun analyst, interpreter
- noun faultfinder, detractor
- According to her own account, her first critic was her father.
- Extract from : « De Libris: Prose and Verse » by Austin Dobson
- He was a very severe, and often unfair, critic of his predecessors.
- Extract from : « Apu Ollantay » by Anonymous
- "Then give me mine," cries the critic, stretching out his palm.
- Extract from : « Main Street » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- He was perhaps then, as he was ever, too severe a critic of his own works.
- Extract from : « The Slave Of The Lamp » by Henry Seton Merriman
- He was a good reader and critic, and his judgment on poetry was to the ground of it.
- Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 58, August, 1862 » by Various
- For one, I confess that I do not know what reply to make to my imaginary European critic.
- Extract from : « The American Mind » by Bliss Perry
- The fallacy of the argument has been exposed by more than one critic.
- Extract from : « A Zola Dictionary » by J. G. Patterson
- He was evidently looked upon as something of a critic in music.
- Extract from : « Harper's Young People, June 29, 1880 » by Various
- Those are hard hits at the critic, but harder were still to come.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 » by Various
- That of his critic was based upon practice and hard experience.
- Extract from : « Cap'n Warren's Wards » by Joseph C. Lincoln
Antonyms for critic
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