Criticism

Noun

 * 1) The act of criticising; a critical judgment passed or expressed; a critical observation or detailed examination and review; a critique; animadversion; censure.
 * The politician received a lot of public criticism for his controversial stance on the issue.

Derived terms

 * self-criticism
 * constructive criticism
 * destructive criticism
 * literary criticism

Related terms

 * critic
 * criticise
 * critical

Adjectives
adverse; favorable; brief; hostile; inductive; malevolent; shallow; argumentative; satisfactory; eerie; comparative; dramatic; querulous; harsh; exacting; withering; reverential; hazy; reprobative; numberless (pi); carping; sophistical; irritating; mordant; metaphysical; trenchant; depressing; cold; merciless; absurd; captious; comprehensive; loud; eager; detailed; negative; audible; severe; social; benevolent; injurious; rational; gentle; satiric; ungenerous; prejudiced; spasmodic; unintended; vigilant; frank; dispassionate; scathing; watchful; cheery, acute; unsparing; sweeping; philosophical; loving; implicit; impartial; outside; caustic; sustained; literary; praise-less; biting; stimulating; musical; acrimonious;  premature; qualifying; energetic; stupid; reflected; skeptical; unkind; affected; epigrammatic; candid; careful; intelligent; lucid; searching; healthy; salutory; expert; constructive; justified; corrective; witty; ironic;  acrid; barbed; endless; lengthy; copious; vehement; stormy; murderous; libelous; bitter; faultfinding; peculiar; slurring; boorish; small-minded; sullen; stringent; factional; journalistic; partisan; aesthetic; presumptuous; subjective; implied; snobbish; retrogressive.

Verbs
base — on; bow to —; chafe at —; dispense with —; distort —; draw —; elicit —; endure —; evoke —; expose to —; heap —; hurl —; indulge in —; justify —; pour forth —; provoke —; refrain from —; squelch —; stifle —; subject to —; welcome —; — cites; — confounds; — marks; — stirs; — takes root.

Thesaurus
adverse criticism, analysis, animadversion, appraisal, approval, aspersion, assessment, bad notices, bad press, book review, captiousness, carping, cavil, caviling, censoriousness, censure, comment, commentary, commentation, condemnation, critical bibliography, critical journal, critical notice, critical review, critique, cryptanalysis, cryptography, cryptology, diagnostics, disapproval, disparagement, editorial, epigraphy, estimate, estimation, evaluation, examination, exception, exegetics, faultfinding, flak, gloss, hairsplitting, hermeneutics, hit, home thrust, hostile criticism, hypercriticalness, hypercriticism, imputation, judgement, knock, leader, leading article, lexicography, literary criticism, metoposcopy, nagging, niggle, niggling, nit, nit-picking, notice, obloquy, observation, oneirology, opinion, overcriticalness, paleography, pathognomy, pestering, pettifogging, physiognomics, physiognomy, priggishness, quibble, quibbling, rap, rating, reflection, remark, renew, report, reproachfulness, review, running commentary, semeiology, semeiotics, slam, stricture, study, swipe, symptomatology, taking exception, textual criticism, trichoschistism, tropology, valuation, write-up

Translations

 * Albanian: autokritikë, vetëkritikë
 * Arabic: (naqd)
 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: kritiko
 * Estonian: arvustamine
 * Finnish: kritiikki, arvostelu, arviointi, tarkastelu
 * French:


 * German:
 * Greek: κριτική
 * Hebrew: ביקורת (biqoret)
 * Italian:
 * Korean: 평
 * Kurdish:
 * Romanian: critică
 * Russian:, порицание
 * Turkish: tenkit, kusur bulma, eleştiri.
 * Ukrainian: критика (krytyka)