critic

See also: crític

English

Alternative forms

• critick (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French critique, from Latin criticus, from Ancient Greek κριτικός (kritikós, “of or for judging, able to discern”), from κρίνω (krínō, “I judge”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹɪt.ɪk/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɪtɪk

Noun

critic (plural critics)

1. A person who appraises the works of others.
   • 1856 February, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Oliver Goldsmith”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, →OCLC:

     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.

2. A specialist in judging works of art.
3. One who criticizes; a person who finds fault.
   • 1741, I[saac] Watts, The Improvement of the Mind: Or, A Supplement to the Art of Logick: […], London: […] James Brackstone, […], →OCLC, paragraph:

     When an author has many beauties consistent with virtue, piety, and truth, let not little critics exalt themselves, and shower down their ill nature.

4. An opponent.
5. Obsolete form of critique (an act of criticism)
   • 1711 May, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: […] W[illiam] Lewis […]; and sold by W[illiam] Taylor […], T[homas] Osborn[e] […], and J[ohn] Graves […], →OCLC:

     Make each day a Critick on the last.

6. Obsolete form of critique (the art of criticism)
   • 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], chapter 21, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC, book IV, page 550:

     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.

Derived terms

• armchair critic
• criticess
• inner critic

Related terms

• crisis
• criterion
• critical
• critically
• critical mass
• criticism
• criticize / criticise
• critique

 

Translations

person who appraises the works of others

• Arabic: نَقَّاد m (naqqād), نَاقِد m (nāqid)
• Armenian: քննադատ (hy) (kʻnnadat)
• Bulgarian: кри́тик m (krítik)
• Catalan: crític (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 批評家／批评家 (zh) (pīpíngjiā), 評論家／评论家 (zh) (pínglùnjiā)

• Dutch: criticus (nl) m
• Esperanto: kritikisto
• Estonian: arvustaja
• Finnish: arvioija (fi), arvottaja
• French: critique (fr) m
• Galician: crítico (gl) m
• German: Kritiker (de) m
• Greek: κριτικός (el) m or f (kritikós)
• Hebrew: מְבַקֵּר m (mevakér), מְבַקֶּרֶת f (mevakéret)
• Hungarian: kritikus (hu), kritikaíró
• Irish: léirmheastóir m, criticeoir m
• Italian: critico (it) m
• Japanese: 批評家 (ひひょうか, hihyōka), 評論家 (ja) (ひょうろんか, hyōronka)
• Kazakh: сыншы (kk) (synşy)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ڕەخنەگر (rexnegir)

  Northern Kurdish: rexnegir (ku)

• Kyrgyz: сынчы (ky) (sıncı)
• Persian: منتقد (fa) (montaqed), باریک‌بین (bârik-bin)
• Polish: krytyk (pl) m, krytyczka f
• Portuguese: crítico (pt) m
• Romanian: critic (ro) m, critică (ro) f
• Russian: кри́тик (ru) m (krítik)
• Sicilian: crìticu (scn) m
• Slovak: kritik m, kritička f
• Spanish: crítico (es)
• Swedish: kritiker (sv) c
• Tagalog: mamumuna
• Thai: นักวิจารณ์ (nák-wí-jaan)
• Turkish: eleştirmen (tr)
• Yiddish: קריטיקער m (kritiker)

specialist in judging works of art

• Armenian: քննադատ (hy) (kʻnnadat)
• Bulgarian: кри́тик m (krítik)
• Catalan: crític (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 評論家／评论家 (ping⁴ leon⁶ gaa¹)

  Mandarin: 評論家／评论家 (zh) (pínglùnjiā)

• Czech: kritik (cs) m
• Finnish: arvostelija (fi), kriitikko (fi)
• German: Kritiker (de) m, Kritikerin (de) f
• Greek: τεχνοκρίτης (el) m or f (technokrítis), τεχνοκριτικός (el) m or f (technokritikós)
• Hebrew: מְבַקֵּר m (mevakér), מְבַקֶּרֶת f (mevakéret)
• Hungarian: kritikus (hu), ítész (hu), műítész (hu), műbíráló (hu)
• Indonesian: kritik (id)
• Irish: criticeoir m, léirmheastóir m
• Italian: critico (it) m
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: rexnegir (ku)

• Polish: krytyk (pl) m, krytyczka f
• Portuguese: crítico (pt) m
• Romanian: critic (ro), critică (ro) f
• Russian: кри́тик (ru) m (krítik)
• Scottish Gaelic: lèirmheasaiche m
• Sicilian: crìticu (scn) m
• Slovak: kritik m, kritička f
• Swedish: kritiker (sv) c
• Thai: นักวิจารณ์ (nák-wí-jaan)
• Turkish: eleştirmen (tr)
• Vietnamese: nhà phê bình
• Yiddish: קריטיקער m (kritiker)

one who criticizes; a person who finds fault

• Arabic: ناقد
• Armenian: քննադատ (hy) (kʻnnadat)
• Bulgarian: критикар m (kritikar)
• Catalan: crític (ca) m
• Danish: kritiker c
• Estonian: arvustaja
• Finnish: arvostelija (fi), kriitikko (fi)
• German: Kritiker (de) m
• Greek: επικριτής (el) m (epikritís), κριτής (el) m or f (kritís)
• Hungarian: kritikus (hu), bíráló (hu)
• Irish: cáinteoir m
• Italian: critico (it) m, polemista (it) m
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ڕەخنەگر (rexnegir)

  Northern Kurdish: rexnegir (ku)

• Polish: krytyk (pl) m, krytyczka f
• Portuguese: criticador
• Romanian: critic (ro) m, critică (ro) f
• Russian: кри́тик (ru) m (krítik), критика́н (ru) m (kritikán) (disparaging)
• Sicilian: crìticu (scn) m, pulimista m or f
• Slovak: kritik m, kritička f
• Swedish: kritiker (sv) c
• Thai: นักวิจารณ์ (nák-wí-jaan)
• Turkish: eleştirmen (tr)

opponent

• Armenian: քննադատ (hy) (kʻnnadat)
• Finnish: vastustaja (fi), vastaväittäjä (fi)
• German: Kritiker (de) m, Kritikerin (de) f, Gegner (de) m, Gegnerin (de) f
• Hungarian: ellenző (hu)
• Italian: avversario (it) m, oppositore (it) m, concorrente (it) m
• Romanian: oponent (ro) m, oponentă (ro) f, opozant (ro) m, opozantă (ro) f
• Sicilian: abbirsaru m, uppusituri m, cuncurrenti m or m pl or f or f pl
• Slovak: kritik m, kritička f

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} critique (fr) m (1-3); ^{(please verify)} détracteur (fr) m, ^{(please verify)} détractrice (fr) f (4)
• Telugu: ^{(please verify)} విమర్శకుడు m (vimarśakuḍu), ^{(please verify)} విమర్శకురాలు f (vimarśakurālu)

Verb

critic (third-person singular simple present critics, present participle criticking, simple past and past participle criticked)

1. (obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To criticise.
   • 1607, Antony Brewer (attributed), Lingua, or the Combat of the Five Senses for Superiority

     Nay, if you begin to critic once, we shall never have done.

Anagrams

• citric

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from English critique, from French critique, from New Latin critica (“critique”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈcɾʲɪtʲɪc/

Noun

critic f (genitive singular critice, nominative plural criticí)

1. critique

   Synonym: beachtaíocht

2. criticism

   Synonyms: criticeas, léirmheastóireacht

Declension

Declension of critic

Second declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative critic criticí Vocative a chritic a chriticí Genitive critice criticí Dative critic criticí

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an chritic na criticí Genitive na critice na gcriticí Dative leis an gcritic don chritic leis na criticí

Derived terms

• critic foirme (“form criticism”)
• critic liteartha (“literary criticism”)
• critic na díthógála (“deconstructive criticism”)
• criticeas (“criticism”)
• criticeoir (“critic”)
• criticiúil (“critical”, adjective)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
critic	chritic	gcritic
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “critic”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “critic”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

Ladin

Adjective

critic m pl

1. masculine plural of critich

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French critique and Latin criticus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkri.tik/

Noun

critic m (plural critici)

1. critic

Adjective

critic m or n (feminine singular critică, masculine plural critici, feminine and neuter plural critice)

1. critical

Declension

Declension of critic

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	critic		critică	critici	critice
	definite	criticul		critica	criticii	criticele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	critic		critice	critici	critice
	definite	criticului		criticei	criticelor	criticilor