Word Meanings - CRITERION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A standard of judging; any approved or established rule or test, by which facts, principles opinions, and conduct are tried in forming a correct judgment respecting them. Of the diseases of the mind there is no criterion. Donne. Inferences founded

Additional info about word: CRITERION

A standard of judging; any approved or established rule or test, by which facts, principles opinions, and conduct are tried in forming a correct judgment respecting them. Of the diseases of the mind there is no criterion. Donne. Inferences founded on such enduring criteria. Sir G. C. Lewis. Syn. -- Standard; measure; rule.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CRITERION)

• Proof
• Test
• trial
• examination
• criterion
• essay
• establishment
• probation
• demonstration
• evidence
• testimony
• scrutiny
• Standard
• Measure
• gauge
• test
• rule
• exemplar
• banner
• flag
• type
• model
• scale
• plummet
• trutination
• Cupel
• proof
• standard
• experiment
• touchstone
• experience
• ordeal
• Trial
• temptation
• trouble
• affliction
• grief
• burden
• suffering
• attempt
• endeavor
• tribulation
• verification

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CRITERION)

• Evade
• escape
• miss
• lose
• Misfit
• misconform
• mismeasure
• misdeal
• misapportion
• Compose
• calm
• allay
• appease
• please
• soothe
• delight
• gratify
• recreate
• entertain
• relieve
• refresh

Related words: (words related to CRITERION)

• GAUGE
  To measure the dimensions of, or to test the accuracy of the form of, as of a part of a gunlock. The vanes nicely gauged on each side. Derham. 4. To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it, as cloth or a garment. 5. To measure
• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
• EXPERIENCED
  Taught by practice or by repeated observations; skillful or wise by means of trials, use, or observation; as, an experienced physician, workman, soldier; an experienced eye. The ablest and most experienced statesmen. Bancroft.
• BANNERED
  Decorated with a banner or banners "bannered host." Milton.
• TRIALITY
  Three united; state of being three. H. Wharton.
• TROUBLER
  One who troubles or disturbs; one who afflicts or molests; a disturber; as, a troubler of the peace. The rich troublers of the world's repose. Waller.
• EXPERIMENTAL
  1. Pertaining to experiment; founded on, or derived from, experiment or trial; as, experimental science; given to, or skilled in, experiment; as, an experimental philosopher. 2. Known by, or derived from, experience; as, experimental religion.
• BANNEROL
  A banderole; esp. a banner displayed at a funeral procession and set over the tomb. See Banderole.
• PROBATION
  1. The act of proving; also, that which proves anything; proof. When by miracle God dispensed great gifts to the laity, . . . he gave probation that he intended that all should prophesy and preach. Jer. Taylor. 2. Any proceeding designed
• DELIGHTLESS
  Void of delight. Thomson.
• CUPELLATION
  The act or process of refining gold or silver, etc., in a cupel. Note: The process consist in exposing the cupel containing the metal to be assayed or refined to a hot blast, by which the lead, copper, tin, etc., are oxidized, dissolved, and carried
• ESSAYER
  One who essays. Addison.
• TESTIMONY
  The two tables of the law. Thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee. Ex. xxv. 16. 6. Hence, the whole divine revelation; the sacre The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. Ps. xix. Syn. -- Proof; evidence;
• GAUGER
  One who gauges; an officer whose business it is to ascertain the contents of casks.
• BURDENER
  One who loads; a oppressor.
• GAUGEABLE
  Capable of being gauged.
• EXPERIMENTIST
  An experimenter.
• STANDARD
  The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority. By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver. Arbuthnot. (more info) extendere to spread out, extend,
• ESSAY
  A composition treating of any particular subject; -- usually shorter and less methodical than a formal, finished treatise; as, an essay on the life and writings of Homer; an essay on fossils, or on commerce. 3. An assay. See Assay, n.
• TRUTINATION
  The act of weighing. Sir T. Browne.
• LONG-SUFFERANCE
  Forbearance to punish or resent.
• INEVIDENCE
  Want of evidence; obscurity. Barrow.
• GUNTER'S SCALE
  A scale invented by the Rev. Edmund Gunter , a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London, who invented also Gunter's chain, and Gunter's quadrant. Note: Gunter's scale is a wooden rule, two feet long, on one side of which are marked scales
• SELF-REPROOF
  The act of reproving one's self; censure of one's conduct by one's own judgment.
• OVERTROUBLED
  Excessively troubled.
• HIGH-PROOF
  1. Highly rectified; very strongly alcoholic; as, high-proof spirits. 2. So as to stand any test. "We are high-proof melancholy." Shak.
• DECOMPOSE
  To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.
• PLOT-PROOF
  Secure against harm by plots. Shak.