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anticritic

anticritic noun: an opponent of critics or criticism.

Noun

anticritic (plural anticritics)

  1. An opponent of critics or criticism.
    • There is a legitimate sense in which the book represents all that the resurgent amateurs and appreciators, the professed anticritics of the 1950's were protesting against.1965, William K. Wimsatt, Hateful Contraries, page 19

Forms of anticritic

pluralanticritics

Origin of anticritic

From anti- + critic.

Questions about anticritic

What does anticritic mean?
Anticritic means an opponent of critics or criticism.
What part of speech is anticritic?
Anticritic is a noun.
What is the plural of anticritic?
The plural of anticritic is anticritics.

Words near anticritic in the dictionary

  1. anticrepuscular ray
  2. anticrepuscular rays
  3. anticrime
  4. anticriminal
  5. anticrisis
  6. anticritic
  7. anticritical
  8. anticriticism
  9. anticriticisms
  10. anticritics
  11. anticritique

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