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Definition of Critic

1. Noun. A person who is professionally engaged in the analysis and interpretation of works of art.

2. Noun. Anyone who expresses a reasoned judgment of something.

3. Noun. Someone who frequently finds fault or makes harsh and unfair judgments.

Definition of Critic

1. n. One skilled in judging of the merits of literary or artistic works; a connoisseur; an adept; hence, one who examines literary or artistic works, etc., and passes judgment upon them; a reviewer.

2. a. Of or pertaining to critics or criticism; critical.

3. v. i. To criticise; to play the critic.

Definition of Critic

1. Noun. A person who appraises the works of others. ¹

2. Noun. A specialist in judging works of art. ¹

3. Noun. One who criticizes; a person who finds fault. ¹

4. Noun. An opponent. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Critic

1. one who judges the merits of something [n -S] : CRITICAL [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Critic

criterion criterion-related validity criterion of verifiability criterion of verification criterional criterionless criterions criterior criterium criteriums

crith crithidia crithidia fasciculata crithomancy criths critic (current term) critical critical Reynolds number critical acclaim critical analysis

critical angle critical angles critical appraisal critical care critical care unit critical concentration critical dissolved oxygen concentration critical flicker fusion frequency critical function critical functions

Literary usage of Critic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"He was, through and through, a critic, gentle but firm, intelligent, exact, ... It seems to me, one can hardly assign to this veteran American critic a high ..."

2. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1904)
"No one, of course, would give to critic. Scott any such relative rank as a critic as that which is his due either as poet or as novelist; but the extent to ..."

3. Poetry by Modern Poetry Association (1916)
"... MACDONAGH As critic Literature in Ireland: Studies Irish and Anglo-Irish, by Thomas MacDonagh. Talbot Press, Dublin. I have before me a very able and ..."

4. Poole's Index to Periodical Literature: The First Supplement, from January 1 by William Frederick Poole, William Isaac Fletcher (1888)
"critic, 3:So. — as a Writer and Teacher. (T. Slater! Month, 53: 374. ... —critic, 2: 128. — Dialectic Unity in hia Prose. (WT Harris) J. Spec. Philos. ..."

5. The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster (1874)
"The critic, indeed, saw through it all, but he gave his warnings in vain. " In vain critical reflection showed these figures to be merely masks; ..."

6. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"A Russian critic ; born in Nishni- Novgorod, Feb. 5, 1836; died Nov. ... An eminent Bohemian critic, literary historian, and philologist, the rejuvenator of ..."

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