Contextualizebeta

critic

noun
/ˈkɹɪt.ɪk/UK

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French critique, from Latin criticus, from Ancient Greek κριτικός (kritikós, “of or for judging, able to discern”), from κρίνω (krínō, “to judge”).

  1. derived from κριτικός — “of or for judging, able to discern”
  2. derived from criticus
  3. borrowed from critique

Definitions

  1. A person who appraises the works of others.

    • 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.

  2. A specialist in judging works of art.

  3. One who criticizes

    One who criticizes; a person who finds fault.

    • When an author has many beauties consistent with virtue, piety, and truth, let not little critics exalt themselves, and shower down their ill nature.
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. An opponent.

    2. Obsolete form of critique (“an act of criticism”).

      • Make each day a Critick on the last.

    3. Obsolete form of critique (“the art of criticism”).

      • 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.

    4. 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.

The neighborhood

Derived

anticritic, armchair critic, criticaster, criticess, criticist, criticproof, criticship, criticule, cybercritic, ecocritic, gynocritic, hypercritic, inner critic, noncritic, supercritic, technocritic

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at critic. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01critic02specialist03research04examine05critically06critics

A definitional loop anchored at critic. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at critic

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA