critic
21critic — /krit ik/, n. 1. a person who judges, evaluates, or criticizes: a poor critic of men. 2. a person who judges, evaluates, or analyzes literary or artistic works, dramatic or musical performances, or the like, esp. for a newspaper or magazine. 3. a …
22critic — Used as a vocative in The Critic, by Wilfred Sheed, but only as a quotation variant. The hero says ‘Critic, review thyself’ to himself, paraphrasing the better known ‘Physician, heal thyself’ of the New Testament …
23critic — I. noun Etymology: Latin criticus, from Greek kritikos, from kritikos able to discern or judge, from krinein Date: 1588 1. a. one who expresses a reasoned opinion on any matter especially involving a judgment of its value, truth, righteousness,… …
24critic — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. judge, connoisseur, expert, reviewer, commentator; censor, censurer. See detraction, taste. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [One who makes adverse comments] Syn. faultfinder, carper, caviler, censor, censurer,… …
25critic — [16] Critic and crisis both come ultimately from the Greek verb krínein ‘decide’ (a relative of Latin cernere ‘decide’, which produced English certain, crime, decree, discern, discrete, discriminate, excrement, riddle ‘sieve’, secret, and… …
26critic — noun 1) a literary critic Syn: reviewer, commentator, evaluator, analyst, judge, pundit 2) critics of the government Syn: detractor, attacker, fault finder, backseat driver, gadfly …
27critic — noun 1) a literary critic Syn: reviewer, commentator, analyst, judge, pundit, expert 2) critics of the government Syn: detractor, attacker, fault finder; informal knocker …
28critic*/ — [ˈkrɪtɪk] noun [C] 1) someone who does not like something and states their opinion about it a critic of the government s tax proposals[/ex] 2) someone whose job is to give their opinions about things such as books, films, or plays …
29critic — crit•ic [[t]ˈkrɪt ɪk[/t]] n. 1) a person who judges, evaluates, or criticizes 2) a person who evaluates, analyzes, or judges literary or artistic works, dramatic or musical performances, etc., as for a newspaper 3) a person who tends too readily… …
30critic — /ˈkrɪtɪk / (say kritik) noun 1. a person skilled in judging the qualities or merits of some class of things, especially of literary or artistic work. 2. someone who judges captiously or with severity; someone who censures or finds fault. 3.… …
