critic

Definitions

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

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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