Word Meanings - CRITICISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The rules and principles which regulate the practice of the critic; the art of judging with knowledge and propriety of the beauties and faults of a literary performance, or of a production in the fine arts; as, dramatic criticism. The elements

Additional info about word: CRITICISM

1. The rules and principles which regulate the practice of the critic; the art of judging with knowledge and propriety of the beauties and faults of a literary performance, or of a production in the fine arts; as, dramatic criticism. The elements ofcriticism depend on the two principles of Beauty and Truth, one of which is the final end or object of study in every one of its pursuits: Beauty, in letters and the arts; Truth, in history and sciences. Brande & C. By criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant a standard of judging well. Dryden. 2. The act of criticising; a critical judgment passed or expressed; a critical observation or detailed examination and review; a critique; animadversion; censure. About the plan of "Rasselas" little was said by the critics; and yet the faults of the plan might seem to invite severe criticism. Macaulay.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CRITICISM)

• Annotation
• Explanation
• criticism
• remark
• note
• commentary
• elucidation
• observation
• comment
• Review
• Resurvey
• retrospect
• reconsideration
• revisal
• re-examination
• critique
• Stricture
• Censure
• animadversion
• reprobation
• dispraise
• blame
• reprehension

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CRITICISM)

• Confound
• confuse
• obscure
• mystify
• misinterpret
• misapprehend
• misconceive
• misrepresent
• Discard
• dismiss
• overlook
• skim
• disregard
• misexamine

Related words: (words related to CRITICISM)

• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• MISINTERPRETABLE
  Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood.
• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• 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.
• OBSCURENESS
  Obscurity. Bp. Hall.
• 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
• OBSCURER
  One who, or that which, obscures.
• REMARKER
  One who remarks.
• CENSURER
  One who censures. Sha.
• REVIEWABLE
  Capable of being reviewed.
• REPREHENSION
  Reproof; censure; blame; disapproval. This Basilius took as though his mistress had given him a secret reprehension that he had not showed more gratefulness to Dorus. Sir P. Sidney. Syn. -- Censure; reproof; reprimand. See Admonition.
• 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.
• BLAME
  1. An expression of disapprobation fir something deemed to be wrong; imputation of fault; censure. Let me bear the blame forever. Gen. xiiii. 9. 2. That which is deserving of censure or disapprobation; culpability; fault; crime; sin.
• EXPLANATION
  1. The act of explaining, expounding, or interpreting; the act of clearing from obscurity and making intelligible; as, the explanation of a passage in Scripture, or of a contract or treaty. 2. That which explains or makes clear; as, a satisfactory
• COMMENTER
  One who makes or writes comments; a commentator; an annotator.
• REPROBATIONER
  One who believes in reprobation. See Reprobation,2. South.
• RETROSPECTIVE
  1. Looking backward; contemplating things past; -- opposed to prospective; as, a retrospective view. The sage, with retrospective eye. Pope. 2. Having reference to what is past; affecting things past; retroactive; as, a retrospective
• BLAMER
  One who blames. Wyclif.
• SUBOBSCURELY
  Somewhat obscurely or darkly. Donne.
• HYPERCRITICISM
  Excessive criticism, or unjust severity or rigor of criticism; zoilism.
• RESURVEY
  To survey again or anew; to review. Shak.