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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, ... show more

Roget 850: taste; good taste, refined taste, cultivated taste; delicacy, refinement, fine feeling, gust, gusto, tact, finesse; nicety etc. (discrimination) ... show more

Roget 936: detractor, reprover; censor, censurer; cynic, critic, caviler, carper, word-catcher, frondeur; barracker.    defamer, backbiter, slanderer, ... show more

Roget 480: result, conclusion, upshot; deduction, inference, ergotism [Med.]; illation; corollary, porism; moral.    estimation, valuation, appreciation, judication; ... show more

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 ... 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 ... show more.

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