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metacritical

metacritical adjective: relating to metacriticism.

Adjective

metacritical (not comparable)

  1. Relating to metacriticism.
    • Through its critical and metacritical readings, then, Bad Environmentalism seeks to both diversify the archive of environmental art and reassess how that archive is constituted in the first place.2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 7

Origin of metacritical

From meta- + critical.

Questions about metacritical

What does metacritical mean?
Metacritical means relating to metacriticism.
What part of speech is metacritical?
Metacritical is an adjective.

Words near metacritical in the dictionary

  1. metacrises
  2. metacrisis
  3. metacristid
  4. metacriteria
  5. metacriterion
  6. metacritical
  7. metacriticism
  8. metacriticisms
  9. metacritique
  10. metacritiques
  11. metacrolein

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