critic
/ˈkɹɪt.ɪk/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.95 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Following its publication, the novel received widespread acclaim from literary critics."
- "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."
- "When an author has many beauties consistent with virtue, piety, and truth, let not little critics exalt themselves, and shower down their ill nature."
- "Make each day a Critick on the last."
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French critique, from Latin criticus, from Ancient Greek κριτικός (kritikós, “of or for judging, able to discern”), from κρίνω (krínō, “to judge”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈkɹɪt.ɪk/
- British English: /ˈkɹɪt.ɪk/