Word Meanings - CRITIQUE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. The art of criticism. 2. A critical examination or estimate of a work of literature or art; a critical dissertation or essay; a careful and through analysis of any subject; a criticism; as, Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason." I should as soon
Additional info about word: CRITIQUE
1. The art of criticism. 2. A critical examination or estimate of a work of literature or art; a critical dissertation or essay; a careful and through analysis of any subject; a criticism; as, Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason." I should as soon expect to see a critique on the poesy of a ring as on the inscription of a medal. Addison. 3. A critic; one who criticises. A question among critiques in the ages to come. Bp. Lincoln.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CRITIQUE)
- Review
- Resurvey
- retrospect
- reconsideration
- revisal
- re-examination
- critique
- criticism
- Tact
- Nicety
- perception
- address
- adroitness
- expertness
- faculty
- knack
- dexterity
- sensitiveness
- skill
- taste
- discrimination
- judgment
- Taste
- Gustation
- savor
- flavor
- sapidity
- relish
- discernment
- nicety
- sensibility
- choice
- zest
- predilection
- delicacy
- elegancy
- refinement
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CRITIQUE)
- Elude
- avoid
- shun
- ignore
- pass
- Repudiate
- nauseate
- reject
- abominate
- loathe
- Discard
- dismiss
- overlook
- skim
- disregard
- misexamine
Related words: (words related to CRITIQUE)
- DISREGARDFULLY
Negligently; heedlessly. - JUDGMENT
The final award; the last sentence. Note: Judgment, abridgment, acknowledgment, and lodgment are in England sometimes written, judgement, abridgement, acknowledgement, and lodgement. Note: Judgment is used adjectively in many self-explaining - DISMISSIVE
Giving dismission. - CHOICE
1. Worthly of being chosen or preferred; select; superior; precious; valuable. My choicest hours of life are lost. Swift. 2. Preserving or using with care, as valuable; frugal; -- used with of; as, to be choice of time, or of money. 3. Selected - SKILLFUL
1. Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning. "Of skillful judgment." Chaucer. 2. Possessed of, or displaying, skill; knowing and ready; expert; well-versed; able in management; as, a skillful mechanic; -- often followed by at, in, or of; as, - 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. - KNACK
1. A petty contrivance; a toy; a plaything; a knickknack. A knack, a toy, a trick, a baby's cap. Shak. 2. A readiness in performance; aptness at doing something; skill; facility; dexterity. The fellow . . . has not the knack with his shears. B. - 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 - SAVORINESS
The quality of being savory. - CHOICELY
1. With care in choosing; with nice regard to preference. "A band of men collected choicely, from each county some." Shak. 2. In a preferable or excellent manner; excellently; eminently. "Choicely good." Walton. - RELISHABLE
Capable of being relished; agreeable to the taste; gratifying. - DEXTERITY
1. Right-handedness. 2. Readiness and grace in physical activity; skill and ease in using the hands; expertness in manual acts; as, dexterity with the chisel. In youth quick bearing and dexterity. Shak. 3. Readiness in the use or control of the - REVIEWABLE
Capable of being reviewed. - SAVOROUS
Having a savor; savory. Rom. of R. - SKILLED
Having familiar knowledge united with readiness and dexterity in its application; familiarly acquainted with; expert; skillful; -- often followed by in; as, a person skilled in drawing or geometry. - PERCEPTION
The faculty of perceiving; the faculty, or peculiar part, of man's constitution by which he has knowledge through the medium or instrumentality of the bodily organs; the act of apperhending material objects or qualities through the senses; - NICETY
1. The quality or state of being nice (in any of the senses of that word.). The miller smiled of her nicety. Chaucer. 2. Delicacy or exactness of perception; minuteness of observation or of discrimination; precision. 3. A delicate expression, act, - 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. - FLAVORED
Having a distinct flavor; as, high-flavored wine. - PRELUDE
An introductory performance, preceding and preparing for the principal matter; a preliminary part, movement, strain, etc.; especially , a strain introducing the theme or chief subject; a movement introductory to a fugue, yet independent; -- with - PRELUDER
One who, or that which, preludes; one who plays a prelude. Mason. - NICKNACK
See KNICKKNACK - NICKNACKERY
See KNICKKNACKERY - HYPERCRITICISM
Excessive criticism, or unjust severity or rigor of criticism; zoilism.