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anticritical

anticritical adjective: opposing critics or criticism.

Adjective

anticritical (comparative more anticritical, superlative most anticritical)

  1. Opposing critics or criticism.
    • In a recent conversation with a distinguished critic who chairs a comparative literature program and directs an undergraduate humanities program, I rediscovered an all-too-common anticritical dimension to so-called American pluralism.1992, Paul A. Bové, In the wake of theory, page 27

Forms of anticritical

comparativemore anticritical
superlativemost anticritical

Origin of anticritical

From anti- + critical.

Questions about anticritical

What does anticritical mean?
Anticritical means opposing critics or criticism.
What part of speech is anticritical?
Anticritical is an adjective.

Words near anticritical in the dictionary

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

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