criticとは

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.
   • Macaulay

     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.
   • I. Watts

     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)
   • Alexander Pope

     Make each day a critic on the last.

   • 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.

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.
   • (Can we date this quote?) A. Brewer

     Nay, if you begin to critic once, we shall never have done.

アナグラム

• citric