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Definitions for Critic

[1] a person who judges, evaluates, or criticizes: a poor critic of men.
[2] a person who judges, evaluates, or analyzes literary or artistic works, dramatic or musical performances, or the like, especially for a newspaper or magazine.
[3] a person who tends too readily to make captious, trivial, or harsh judgments; faultfinder.
[4] Archaic . criticism. critique.
[5] a person who judges something
[6] a professional judge of art, music, literature, etc
[7] a person who often finds fault and criticizes

Words related to Critic

pundit, expert, cartoonist, authority, judge, reviewer, commentator, connoisseur, sharpshooter, arbiter, expositor, caricaturist, analyzer, evaluator, doubter, complainant, quibbler, caviler, censor, complainer

Words nearby Critic

cristophe, crit, crit., criterion, crithidia, critic, critical, critical angle, critical apparatus, critical care unit, critical constant

Origin of Critic

1575–85; < Latin criticus < Greek kritikós skilled in judging (adj.), critic (noun), equivalent to krī́t(ēs ) judge, umpire (krī́(nein ) to separate, decide + -tēs agent suffix) + -ikos -ic

Words that may be confused with Critic

critic, criticism, critique

Other words from Critic

su·per·crit·ic , noun

Word origin for Critic

C16: from Latin criticus, from Greek kritikos capable of judging, from kritēs judge; see criterion

Synonyms for Critic

authority, cartoonist, commentator, expert, judge, pundit, reviewer, analyzer, annotator, arbiter, caricaturist, connoisseur, evaluator, expositor, sharpshooter, diagnostic