criticとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Middle French critique, from Latin criticus, from Ancient Greek κριτικός (kritikós, “of または for judging, able to discern”), from κρίνω (krínō, “I judge”).

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹɪt.ɪk/
• 韻: -ɪtɪk

名詞

critic (複数形 critics)

1. A person who appraises the works of others.
   • 1856 February​, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Oliver Goldsmith [from the Encyclopædia Britannica]”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, OCLC 30956848:

     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.

2. A specialist in judging works of art.
3. One who criticizes; a person who finds fault.
   • 1741, I[saac] Watts, The Improvement of the Mind: Or, A Supplement to the Art of Logick: […], London: […] James Brackstone, […], OCLC 723474632:

     When an author has many beauties consistent with virtue, piety, and truth, let not little critics exalt themselves, and shower down their ill nature.

4. An opponent.
5. Obsolete form of critique (an act of criticism)
   • 1709, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: Printed for W. Lewis […], published 1711, OCLC 15810849:

     Make each day a Critick on the last.

6. Obsolete form of critique (the art of criticism)
   • 1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Chapter 21, page 550

     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.

派生語

• armchair critic
• criticess

関連する語

動詞

critic (三人称単数 現在形 critics, 現在分詞 criticking, 過去形および過去分詞形 criticked)

1. (obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To criticise.
   • 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.

アナグラム

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