Word Meanings - CRITICISE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To examine and judge as a critic; to pass literary or artistic judgment upon; as, to criticise an author; to criticise a picture. 2. To express one's views as to the merit or demerit of; esp., to animadvert upon; to find fault with;

Additional info about word: CRITICISE

1. To examine and judge as a critic; to pass literary or artistic judgment upon; as, to criticise an author; to criticise a picture. 2. To express one's views as to the merit or demerit of; esp., to animadvert upon; to find fault with; as, to criticise conduct. Blackwood's Mag.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CRITICISE)

• Comment Note
• observe
• interpret
• illustrate
• expound
• dilate
• explain
• expatiate
• criticise

Related words: (words related to CRITICISE)

• CRITICISER
  One who criticises; a critic.
• INTERPRETABLE
  Admitting of interpretation; capable of being interpreted or explained.
• EXPLAIN
  out+plandare to make level or plain, planus plain: cf. OF. esplaner, 1. To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand. The horse-chestnut is . . . ready to explain its leaf. Evelyn. 2. To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear
• COMMENTER
  One who makes or writes comments; a commentator; an annotator.
• INTERPRETATIVELY
  By interpretation. Ray.
• INTERPRETIVE
  Interpretative.
• COMMENTATORSHIP
  The office or occupation of a commentator.
• DILATED
  Widening into a lamina or into lateral winglike appendages. (more info) 1. Expanded; enlarged. Shak.
• COMMENTITIOUS
  Fictitious or imaginary; unreal; as, a commentitious system of religion. Warburton.
• DILATER
  One who, or that which, dilates, expands, o r enlarges.
• OBSERVER
  1. One who observes, or pays attention to, anything; especially, one engaged in, or trained to habits of, close and exact observation; as, an astronomical observer. The observed of all observers. Shak. Careful observers may foretell the hour, By
• EXPOUNDER
  One who expounds or explains; an interpreter.
• COMMENTATORIAL
  Pertaining to the making of commentaries. Whewell.
• DILATE
  word as latus, used as p. p. of ferre to bear ; or fr. dilatus, used as p. p. of differre to separate (see Delay, Tolerate, 1. To expand; to distend; to enlarge or extend in all directions; to swell; -- opposed to contract; as, the air dilates
• EXPLAINABLE
  Capable of being explained or made plain to the understanding; capable of being interpreted. Sir. T. Browne.
• CRITICISE
  1. To examine and judge as a critic; to pass literary or artistic judgment upon; as, to criticise an author; to criticise a picture. 2. To express one's views as to the merit or demerit of; esp., to animadvert upon; to find fault with;
• INTERPRETATIVE
  1. Designed or fitted to interpret; explanatory. "Interpretative lexicography." Johnson. 2. According to interpretation; constructive. An interpretative siding with heresies. Hammond.
• DILATEDLY
  In a dilated manner. Feltham.
• ILLUSTRATE
  1. To make clear, bright, or luminous. Here, when the moon illustrates all the sky. Chapman. 2. To set in a clear light; to exhibit distinctly or conspicuously. Shak. To prove him, and illustrate his high worth. Milton. 3. To make clear,
• EXPLAINER
  One who explains; an expounder or expositor; a commentator; an interpreter.
• MISINTERPRETABLE
  Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood.
• MISOBSERVE
  To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke.
• MISEXPOUND
  To expound erroneously.
• MISINTERPRETER
  One who interprets erroneously.
• SUBDILATED
  Partially dilated.
• MISOBSERVER
  One who misobserves; one who fails to observe properly.