critics

NOUN

analyst, interpreter

Synonyms

STRONGEST

authority cartoonist commentator expert judge pundit reviewer

STRONG

analyzer annotator arbiter caricaturist connoisseur evaluator expositor sharpshooter

WEAK

diagnostic

Antonyms

STRONGEST

amateur

WEAK

complimenter praiser

NOUN

faultfinder, detractor

Synonyms

STRONG

attacker carper caviler censor complainant complainer defamer disparager doubter maligner muckraker nagger quibbler scolder slanderer vilifier worrier zapper

WEAK

aristarch backseat driver belittler blamer censurer disapprover disputer fretter hypercritic mud-slinger nit-picker panner reviler sidewalk superintendent

Antonyms

WEAK

complimenter praiser

Example Sentences

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CRITICS, authors very rarely hurt by them, iii.

From Life of Johnson, Volume 6 Addenda, index, dicta philosophi, etc. by Boswell, James

THE CRITICS: Dramatic critics furiously condemn a play at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin.

From The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays by Leonard, Sterling Andrus