critic
noun
1 critic
A person who is professionally engaged in the analysis and interpretation of works of art.
Roget 595:
dissertation,
treatise,
essay;
thesis,
theme;
monograph,
tract,
tractate†,
tractation†;
discourse,
memoir,
disquisition,
lecture,
sermon,
homily,
pandect†;
excursus.
commentary,
review,
critique,
criticism,
article;
leader,
leading article;
editorial;
running commentary.
investigation
etc.
(inquiry)
461;
study
etc.
(consideration)
451;
discussion
etc.
(reasoning)
476;
exposition
etc.
(explanation)
522.
commentator,
critic,
essayist,
pamphleteer.
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Roget 850:
taste;
good taste,
refined taste,
cultivated taste;
delicacy,
refinement,
fine feeling,
gust,
gusto,
tact,
finesse;
nicety
etc.
(discrimination)
465;
to prepon [Gr.];
polish,
elegance,
grace.
judgment,
discernment
etc.
465.
dilettantism,
dilettanteism;
virtu;
fine art;
culture,
cultivation.
[Science of taste]
aesthetics.
man of taste
&c.;
connoisseur,
judge,
critic,
conoscente,
virtuoso,
amateur,
dilettante,
Aristarchus†,
Corinthian,
arbiter elegantiarum [Lat.],
stagirite†,
euphemist.
caviare to the general"
[Hamlet].
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Roget 936:
detractor,
reprover;
censor,
censurer;
cynic,
critic,
caviler,
carper,
word-catcher,
frondeur;
barracker†.
defamer,
backbiter,
slanderer,
Sir Benjamin Backbite,
lampooner,
satirist,
traducer,
libeler,
calumniator,
dawplucker†,
Thersites†;
Zoilus;
good-natured friend [Iron.];
reviler,
vituperator,
castigator;
shrew
etc.
901;
muckraker.
disapprover,
laudator temporis acti [Lat.]
[Horace].
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Roget 480:
result,
conclusion,
upshot;
deduction,
inference,
ergotism [Med.];
illation;
corollary,
porism†;
moral.
estimation,
valuation,
appreciation,
judication†;
dijudication†,
adjudication;
arbitrament,
arbitrement†,
arbitration;
assessment,
ponderation†;
valorization.
award,
estimate;
review,
criticism,
critique,
notice,
report.
decision,
determination,
judgment,
finding,
verdict,
sentence,
decree;
findings of fact;
findings of law;
res judicata [Lat.].
plebiscite,
voice,
casting vote;
vote
etc.
(choice)
609;
opinion
etc.
(belief)
484;
good judgment
etc.
(wisdom)
498.
judge,
umpire;
arbiter,
arbitrator;
asessor,
referee.
censor,
reviewer,
critic;
connoisseur;
commentator
etc.
524;
inspector,
inspecting officer.
twenty-twenty hindsight
[judgment after the fact];
armchair general,
monday morning quarterback.
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Dutch: criticus
2 critic
Anyone who expresses a reasoned judgment of something.
3 critic
Someone who frequently finds fault or makes harsh and unfair judgments.
Dutch: beuzelaar, chicaneur, criticaster, criticus, haarklover, kanarieneuker, kommaneuker, krentenweger, miereneuker, muggenzifter, muggezifter, peuteraar, pezewever, pietepeuter, pietepeuteraar, pietjesneuker, pietlut, scherpslijper, vitter ... show more
Moby thesaurus: advertising writer, aficionado, allegorist, amateur, annalist, annotator, arbiter, arbiter elegantiarum, arbiter of taste, art critic, author, authoress, authority, belittler, belletrist, bibliographer, bon vivant, book reviewer, buff, captious, captious critic, carper, carping, caviler, caviling, censor, censorious, censurer, cicerone, clarifier, coauthor, cognoscente, collaborator, collector, columnist, commentator, commenter, common scold, compiler, complainer, composer, connaisseur, connoisseur, copywriter, creative writer, criticaster, criticizer, critickin, criticule, cryptanalyst, cryptographer, cryptologist, dance critic, decoder, definer, demonstrator, demythologizer, diarist, diaskeuast, dilettante, disparager, dragoman, drama critic, dramatist, editor, editorial writer, editorialist, emendator, emender, encyclopedist, epicure, epicurean, essayist, euhemerist, exegesist, exegete, exegetist, expert, explainer, explicator, exponent, expositor, expounder, fan, faultfinder, faultfinding, freak, free lance, free-lance writer, frondeur, ghost, ghostwriter, glossarist, glossographer, go-between, good judge, gourmand, gourmet, guide, hermeneut, humorist, hypercritical, inditer, interpreter, judge, knocker, leader writer, lexicographer, literary artist, literary craftsman, literary critic, literary man, litterateur, logographer, magazine writer, man of letters, maven, metaphrast, momus, monographer, muckraker, mudslinger, music critic, news analyst, newspaperman, nitpicker, novelettist, novelist, nut, oneirocritic, overcritical, pamphleteer, paraphrast, penwoman, pettifogger, poet, prose writer, publicist, pundit, quibbler, refined palate, reviewer, savant, scenario writer, scenarist, scholar, scholiast, scold, scribe, scriptwriter, short-story writer, smellfungus, social critic, specialist, storyteller, technical expert, technical writer, technician, textual critic, translator, virtuoso, word painter, wordsmith, writer ... show more.
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