What is "critic" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does critic mean in English? Meaning of critic definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "critic" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "critic": a person who is professionally engaged in the analysis and interpretation of works of art

Noun

  • Meaning: a person who is professionally engaged in the analysis and interpretation of works of art
  • Synonyms: critic
  • Hyponyms: art critic drama critic literary critic music critic newspaper critic theater critic
  • Hypernyms: professional professional person
  • Instance Hyponyms: allen tate granville-barker harley granville-barker john orley allen tate tate
  • Meaning of "critic": anyone who expresses a reasoned judgment of something

    Noun

  • Meaning: anyone who expresses a reasoned judgment of something
  • Synonyms: critic
  • Hyponyms: appraiser authenticator grader panelist panellist reader referee reviewer sampler taste tester taste-tester taster
  • Hypernyms: evaluator judge
  • Meaning of "critic": someone who frequently finds fault or makes harsh and unfair judgments

    Noun

  • Meaning: someone who frequently finds fault or makes harsh and unfair judgments
  • Synonyms: critic
  • Hyponyms: carper niggler nitpicker roaster
  • Hypernyms: disagreeable person unpleasant person
  • Adjective: A person who appraises the works of others. Macaulay The opinion of the most skilful critics was, that nothing finer [than Goldsmith's Traveller] had appeared in verse since the fourth book of the Dunciad.Macaulay The opinion of the most skilful critics was, that nothing finer [than Goldsmith's Traveller] had appeared in verse since the fourth book of the Dunciad.A specialist in judging works of art.One who criticizes; a person who finds fault. I. Watts When an author has many beauties consistent with virtue, piety, and truth, let not little critics exalt themselves, and shower down their ill nature.I. Watts When an author has many beauties consistent with virtue, piety, and truth, let not little critics exalt themselves, and shower down their ill nature.An opponent.Obsolete form of critique (an act of criticism) Alexander Pope Make each day a critic on the last.Alexander Pope Make each day a critic on the last.Obsolete form of critique (the art of criticism) John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Chapter 21, page 550 And, perhaps, if they were distinctly weighed, and duly considered, they would afford us another sort of logic and critic, than what we have been hitherto acquainted with.John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Chapter 21, page 550 And, perhaps, if they were distinctly weighed, and duly considered, they would afford us another sort of logic and critic, than what we have been hitherto acquainted with.
  • Synonyms:

    pundit, expert, cartoonist, authority, judge, reviewer, commentator, connoisseur, sharpshooter, arbiter, diagnostic, expositor, caricaturist, annotator, analyzer, evaluator, doubter, complainant, quibbler, caviler, censor, attacker, complainer, carper, backseat driver, zapper, maligner, muckraker, defamer, disparager, scolder, slanderer, worrier, nagger, vilifier, aristarch, belittler, blamer, censurer, disapprover, disputer, fretter, hypercritic, mud-slinger, nit-picker, panner, reviler, sidewalk superintendent,

    Antonyms:

    amateur, complimenter, praiser, complimenter, praiser,

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