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Antonyms for critics

Grammar : Noun
Spell : krit-ik
Phonetic Transcription : ˈkrɪt ɪk

Definition of critics

Origin :
  • 1580s, "one who passes judgment," from Middle French critique (14c.), from Latin criticus "a judge, literary critic," from Greek kritikos "able to make judgments," from krinein "to separate, decide" (see crisis). Meaning "one who judges merits of books, plays, etc." is from c.1600. The English word always had overtones of "censurer, faultfinder."
  • To understand how the artist felt, however, is not criticism; criticism is an investigation of what the work is good for. ... Criticism ... is a serious and public function; it shows the race assimilating the individual, dividing the immortal from the mortal part of a soul. [George Santayana, "The Life of Reason," 1906]A perfect judge will read each work of witWith the same spirit that its author writ;[Pope, "An Essay on Criticism," 1709]
  • noun analyst, interpreter
  • noun faultfinder, detractor
Example sentences :
  • It received the praise of Gifford, the severest of English critics.
  • Extract from : « Biographical Sketches » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • This is what the commentators and critics hitherto have failed to appreciate.
  • Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris
  • Hallam and Heine, and all the cry of critics, are mistaken in this matter.
  • Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris
  • Some critics, and among them Dr. Brandes, place it later, and they have some reason for their belief.
  • Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris
  • The critics stampeded, as they always did when the Countess began to talk.
  • Extract from : « Chip, of the Flying U » by B. M. Bower
  • In literary affairs, to become the fundamental element in a cone of critics.
  • Extract from : « The Devil's Dictionary » by Ambrose Bierce
  • This was not so, though, as all the critics had read and re-read the piece.
  • Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
  • The two front rows of the pit, as usual, were full of critics.
  • Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 9 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
  • The critics of the large cities discussed this modern Magdalene.
  • Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
  • And as when soldiers are numerous, there will be not a few who are only tolerable, if even that, so of critics.
  • Extract from : « A Dish Of Orts » by George MacDonald

Synonyms for critics

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