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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French critique, from Latin criticus, from Ancient Greek κριτικός (kritikós, “of or for judging, able to discern”), from κρίνω (krínō, “I judge”).
Pronunciation
Noun
critic (plural critics)
- A person who appraises the works of others.
1856 February, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Oliver Goldsmith”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, →OCLC: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.
1741, I[saac] Watts, The Improvement of the Mind: Or, A Supplement to the Art of Logick: , London: James Brackstone, , →OCLC, paragraph: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)
- Obsolete form of critique (the art of criticism)
1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], chapter 21, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. , London: Eliz Holt, for Thomas Basset, , →OCLC, book IV, 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.
Derived terms
Translations
person who appraises the works of others
- Arabic: نَقَّاد m (naqqād), نَاقِد m (nāqid)
- Armenian: քննադատ (hy) (kʻnnadat)
- Bulgarian: кри́тик m (krítik)
- Catalan: crític (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 批評家/批评家 (zh) (pīpíngjiā), 評論家/评论家 (zh) (pínglùnjiā)
- Dutch: criticus (nl) m
- Esperanto: kritikisto
- Estonian: arvustaja
- Finnish: arvioija (fi), arvottaja
- French: critique (fr) m
- Galician: crítico (gl) m
- German: Kritiker (de) m
- Greek: κριτικός (el) m or f (kritikós)
- Hebrew: מְבַקֵּר m (mevakér), מְבַקֶּרֶת f (mevakéret)
- Hungarian: kritikus (hu), kritikaíró
- Irish: léirmheastóir m, criticeoir m
- Italian: critico (it) m
- Japanese: 批評家 (ひひょうか, hihyōka), 評論家 (ja) (ひょうろんか, hyōronka)
- Kazakh: сыншы (kk) (synşy)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: ڕەخنەگر (rexnegir)
- Northern Kurdish: rexnegir (ku)
- Kyrgyz: сынчы (ky) (sıncı)
- Persian: منتقد (fa) (montaqed), باریکبین (bârik-bin)
- Polish: krytyk (pl) m, krytyczka f
- Portuguese: crítico (pt) m
- Romanian: critic (ro) m, critică (ro) f
- Russian: кри́тик (ru) m (krítik)
- Sicilian: crìticu (scn) m
- Slovak: kritik m, kritička f
- Spanish: crítico (es)
- Swedish: kritiker (sv) c
- Tagalog: mamumuna
- Thai: นักวิจารณ์ (nák-wí-jaan)
- Turkish: eleştirmen (tr)
- Yiddish: קריטיקער m (kritiker)
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specialist in judging works of art
- Armenian: քննադատ (hy) (kʻnnadat)
- Bulgarian: кри́тик m (krítik)
- Catalan: crític (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 評論家/评论家 (ping4 leon6 gaa1)
- Mandarin: 評論家/评论家 (zh) (pínglùnjiā)
- Czech: kritik (cs) m
- Finnish: arvostelija (fi), kriitikko (fi)
- German: Kritiker (de) m, Kritikerin (de) f
- Greek: τεχνοκρίτης (el) m or f (technokrítis), τεχνοκριτικός (el) m or f (technokritikós)
- Hebrew: מְבַקֵּר m (mevakér), מְבַקֶּרֶת f (mevakéret)
- Hungarian: kritikus (hu), ítész (hu), műítész (hu), műbíráló (hu)
- Indonesian: kritik (id)
- Irish: criticeoir m, léirmheastóir m
- Italian: critico (it) m
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: rexnegir (ku)
- Polish: krytyk (pl) m, krytyczka f
- Portuguese: crítico (pt) m
- Romanian: critic (ro), critică (ro) f
- Russian: кри́тик (ru) m (krítik)
- Scottish Gaelic: lèirmheasaiche m
- Sicilian: crìticu (scn) m
- Slovak: kritik m, kritička f
- Swedish: kritiker (sv) c
- Thai: นักวิจารณ์ (nák-wí-jaan)
- Turkish: eleştirmen (tr)
- Vietnamese: nhà phê bình
- Yiddish: קריטיקער m (kritiker)
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one who criticizes; a person who finds fault
opponent
- Armenian: քննադատ (hy) (kʻnnadat)
- Finnish: vastustaja (fi), vastaväittäjä (fi)
- German: Kritiker (de) m, Kritikerin (de) f, Gegner (de) m, Gegnerin (de) f
- Hungarian: ellenző (hu)
- Italian: avversario (it) m, oppositore (it) m, concorrente (it) m
- Romanian: oponent (ro) m, oponentă (ro) f, opozant (ro) m, opozantă (ro) f
- Sicilian: abbirsaru m, uppusituri m, cuncurrenti m or m pl or f or f pl
- Slovak: kritik m, kritička f
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Verb
critic (third-person singular simple present critics, present participle criticking, simple past and past participle criticked)
- (obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To criticise.
- 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.
Anagrams
Irish
Etymology
Borrowed from English critique, from French critique, from New Latin critica (“critique”).
Pronunciation
Noun
critic f (genitive singular critice, nominative plural criticí)
- critique
- Synonym: beachtaíocht
- criticism
- Synonyms: criticeas, léirmheastóireacht
Declension
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Mutation
Irish mutation
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Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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critic
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chritic
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gcritic
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Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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Further reading
Ladin
Adjective
critic m pl
- masculine plural of critich
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French critique and Latin criticus.
Pronunciation
Noun
critic m (plural critici)
- critic
Adjective
critic m or n (feminine singular critică, masculine plural critici, feminine and neuter plural critice)
- critical
Declension