Word Meanings - CRITIQUE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The art of criticism. 2. A critical examination or estimate of a work of literature or art; a critical dissertation or essay; a careful and through analysis of any subject; a criticism; as, Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason." I should as soon

Additional info about word: CRITIQUE

1. The art of criticism. 2. A critical examination or estimate of a work of literature or art; a critical dissertation or essay; a careful and through analysis of any subject; a criticism; as, Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason." I should as soon expect to see a critique on the poesy of a ring as on the inscription of a medal. Addison. 3. A critic; one who criticises. A question among critiques in the ages to come. Bp. Lincoln.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CRITIQUE)

• Review
• Resurvey
• retrospect
• reconsideration
• revisal
• re-examination
• critique
• criticism
• Tact
• Nicety
• perception
• address
• adroitness
• expertness
• faculty
• knack
• dexterity
• sensitiveness
• skill
• taste
• discrimination
• judgment
• Taste
• Gustation
• savor
• flavor
• sapidity
• relish
• discernment
• nicety
• sensibility
• choice
• zest
• predilection
• delicacy
• elegancy
• refinement

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CRITIQUE)

• Elude
• avoid
• shun
• ignore
• pass
• Repudiate
• nauseate
• reject
• abominate
• loathe
• Discard
• dismiss
• overlook
• skim
• disregard
• misexamine

Related words: (words related to CRITIQUE)

• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• JUDGMENT
  The final award; the last sentence. Note: Judgment, abridgment, acknowledgment, and lodgment are in England sometimes written, judgement, abridgement, acknowledgement, and lodgement. Note: Judgment is used adjectively in many self-explaining
• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• CHOICE
  1. Worthly of being chosen or preferred; select; superior; precious; valuable. My choicest hours of life are lost. Swift. 2. Preserving or using with care, as valuable; frugal; -- used with of; as, to be choice of time, or of money. 3. Selected
• SKILLFUL
  1. Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning. "Of skillful judgment." Chaucer. 2. Possessed of, or displaying, skill; knowing and ready; expert; well-versed; able in management; as, a skillful mechanic; -- often followed by at, in, or of; as,
• RETROSPECT
  A looking back on things past; view or contemplation of the past. Cowper. We may introduce a song without retrospect to the old comedy. Landor.
• KNACK
  1. A petty contrivance; a toy; a plaything; a knickknack. A knack, a toy, a trick, a baby's cap. Shak. 2. A readiness in performance; aptness at doing something; skill; facility; dexterity. The fellow . . . has not the knack with his shears. B.
• DISMISSAL
  Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
• REVIEW
  Etym: 1. To view or see again; to look back on "I shall review Sicilia." Shak. 2. To go over and examine critically or deliberately. Specifically: To reconsider; to revise, as a manuscript before printing it, or a book for a new edition. To go
• SAVORINESS
  The quality of being savory.
• CHOICELY
  1. With care in choosing; with nice regard to preference. "A band of men collected choicely, from each county some." Shak. 2. In a preferable or excellent manner; excellently; eminently. "Choicely good." Walton.
• RELISHABLE
  Capable of being relished; agreeable to the taste; gratifying.
• DEXTERITY
  1. Right-handedness. 2. Readiness and grace in physical activity; skill and ease in using the hands; expertness in manual acts; as, dexterity with the chisel. In youth quick bearing and dexterity. Shak. 3. Readiness in the use or control of the
• REVIEWABLE
  Capable of being reviewed.
• SAVOROUS
  Having a savor; savory. Rom. of R.
• SKILLED
  Having familiar knowledge united with readiness and dexterity in its application; familiarly acquainted with; expert; skillful; -- often followed by in; as, a person skilled in drawing or geometry.
• PERCEPTION
  The faculty of perceiving; the faculty, or peculiar part, of man's constitution by which he has knowledge through the medium or instrumentality of the bodily organs; the act of apperhending material objects or qualities through the senses;
• NICETY
  1. The quality or state of being nice (in any of the senses of that word.). The miller smiled of her nicety. Chaucer. 2. Delicacy or exactness of perception; minuteness of observation or of discrimination; precision. 3. A delicate expression, act,
• DISMISS
  1. To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away. He dismissed the assembly. Acts xix. 41. Dismiss their cares when they dismiss their flock. Cowper. Though he soon dismissed himself from state affairs. Dryden.
• FLAVORED
  Having a distinct flavor; as, high-flavored wine.
• PRELUDE
  An introductory performance, preceding and preparing for the principal matter; a preliminary part, movement, strain, etc.; especially , a strain introducing the theme or chief subject; a movement introductory to a fugue, yet independent; -- with
• PRELUDER
  One who, or that which, preludes; one who plays a prelude. Mason.
• NICKNACK
  See KNICKKNACK
• NICKNACKERY
  See KNICKKNACKERY
• HYPERCRITICISM
  Excessive criticism, or unjust severity or rigor of criticism; zoilism.