Meaning

(countable) A person who appraises the works of others..

Definitions by Sense

1. (countable) A person who appraises the works of others.
2. (countable) A specialist in judging works of art.
3. (countable) One who criticizes; a person who finds fault.
4. (countable) An opponent.
5. (countable) Obsolete form of critique (“an act of criticism”).
6. (uncountable) Obsolete form of critique (“the art of criticism”).
7. (obsolete, ambitransitive) To criticise.

Example Sentences

Following its publication, the novel received widespread acclaim from literary critics.

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.

When an author has many beauties consistent with virtue, piety, and truth, let not little critics exalt themselves, and shower down their ill nature.

Make each day a Critick on the last.

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.

1607, Antony Brewer (attributed), Lingua, or the Combat of the Five Senses for Superiority Nay, if you begin to critic once, we shall never have done.

Word Forms

• critics
• critick
• criticking
• criticked

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Use critic when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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