criticism
Syllables: crit·i·cism/ˈkɹɪtɪsɪzm̩/
criticism noun: the act of criticising; a critical judgment passed or expressed.
Noun
criticism (countable and uncountable, plural criticisms)
- The act of criticising; a critical judgment passed or expressed.
- The politician received a lot of public criticism for his controversial stance on the issue.
- Criticism has been leveled at a number of prominent figures.
- A critical observation or detailed examination and review.
- The politician received several detailed criticisms of his stance on the issue.
- I was stung by her harsh criticisms.
- Synonyms:
- critique, animadversion, stricture, criticization, dressing-down, handbagging, slam
criticism meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
criticism in Hindi
- act of criticising
- आलोचना ālocnā
criticism in Tamil
- திறனாய்வு, நடுநிலை மதிப்பீடு, விமர்சனம், திறன்காணல், குறைநிறை காண்டல், குறை காணல்
criticism in Urdu
- act of criticising
- تَنْقِید tanqīd
criticism in Bengali
- criticism
- নিন্দাবাদ nindabad
More languagesFewer languages
- criticism in Malayalam
- വിമർശനം vimaṟśanaṁ
- criticism in Kannada
- ತೆಗಳ್ಕೆ
- criticism in Punjabi
- الاہما ulāhmā, کاڈھ kāḍh
- criticism in Pashto
- نقد naqd, تنقيد tanqid, انتقاد enteqād
- criticism in Tagalog
- pamumuna, panunuri
- criticism in Arabic
- نَقْد naqd, اِنْتِقَاد intiqād
- criticism in Malay
- kritikan
- criticism in Persian
- نَقد naqd, اِنتِقاد enteqâd, تَنقید tanqid
- criticism in Thai
- ปริทัศน์, คำวิจารณ์, การวิพากษ์ gaan-wí-pâak
- criticism in Vietnamese
- sự phê bình
Examples of criticism in a sentence
- Bret Stephens believed that, by virtue of his comfortable position at the New York Times, he ought to be immune from insult or criticism.2019 September 3, David Karpf, “Bret Stephens Compared Me to a Nazi Propagandist in the New York Times. It Proved My Point.”, in Esquire:
- A close criticism might have detected signs proving that she was intent on the latter alternative.1874, Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd, Barnes & Noble Classics (2005 publication of 1912 Wessex edition), page 276:
Synonyms of criticism
- censure
- dispraise
- panning
- critique
- animadversion
- stricture
- criticization
- dressing-down
- handbagging
- slam
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Antonyms
Forms of criticism
| plural | criticisms |
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Origin of criticism
From critic + -ism.
Words formed from criticism
- anticriticism
- autocriticism
- biocriticism
- constructive criticism
- contextual criticism
- countercriticism
- cybercriticism
- destructive criticism
- ecocriticism
- form criticism
- geocriticism
- gynocriticism
- higher criticism
- historical criticism
- historic criticism
- hypercriticism
- literary criticism
- lower criticism
- metacriticism
- neocriticism
- New Criticism
- oneirocriticism
- overcriticism
- self-criticism
- source criticism
- technocriticism
- textual criticism
Questions about criticism
- What does criticism mean?
- Criticism means the act of criticising; a critical judgment passed or expressed.
- What is criticism in Hindi?
- Criticism in Hindi is आलोचना (ālocnā). See Criticism meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use criticism in a sentence?
- Bret Stephens believed that, by virtue of his comfortable position at the New York Times, he ought to be immune from insult or criticism.
- What part of speech is criticism?
- Criticism is a noun.
- How do you pronounce criticism?
- Criticism is pronounced /ˈkɹɪtɪsɪzm̩/.
- What is the plural of criticism?
- The plural of criticism is criticisms.
Words near criticism in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: criticism (page history and authors); criticism (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); নিন্দাবাদ (Bengali) (page history and authors); criticism (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); الاہما (Punjabi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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