Definition of Critic

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Critic

One skilled in judging of the merits of literary or artistic works; a connoisseur; an adept; hence, one who examines literary or artistic works, etc., and passes judgment upon them; a reviewer.

One who passes a rigorous or captious judgment; one who censures or finds fault; a harsh examiner or judge; a caviler; a carper.

The art of criticism.

An act of criticism; a critique.

Of or pertaining to critics or criticism; critical.

To criticise; to play the critic.

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Critic Quotations

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.
Mark Twain

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.
Theodore Roosevelt

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
Oscar Wilde

The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.
Edgar Allan Poe

A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
Wilson Mizner

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
John Keats

Time is the only critic without ambition.
John Steinbeck

Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
John Steinbeck

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.
Virginia Woolf

Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.
Henry Miller

Critic Translations

critic in German is Kritiker
critic in Hungarian is kritikus
critic in Swedish is kritiker

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