criticize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɪtɪsaɪz/
Forms: form: criticizes
form: criticizing
form: criticized
form: criticized
form: criticise
Etymology: From critic + -ize; first element from Ancient Greek κριτικός (kritikós, “of or for judging, able to discern”), from κρίσις (krísis, “decision, judgement”).
Senses: examples: text: They criticized him for endangering people's lives.
text: Homophobia is based on criticizing any sexual expression outside of procreational sex.
ref: 1988 August 13, Elizabeth Pincus, “1978 Revisited”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 5, page 7:
text: Since when is it a hanging offense to criticize someone who's not doing the job he's paid generously to do?
ref: 1999 June 18, Rod Beaton, “Astros winning despite obstacles”, in USA Today:
text: But far from being naïve Scandinavist ideologists, Blix et al. continually criticizes the utopian Scandinavists' talk of brotherhood and 'one culture', but also—and perhaps most importantly—made cultural separatism and provincialism, particularly in Norway, the object of crass satire.
ref: 2009, Eirik Vassenden, “Norway: The Province and its Metropolities”, in Peter Brooker, Andrew Thacker, editors, The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines, volume 3, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 658:
text: Then Federal Minister of Environment Antonin Vavrougek had strongly criticized the entire project while working at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Prague, taking a more limitationist view about the possibilities of generating electricity and a more alarmist view about the effect on drinking water supplies.
ref: 2010, Paul Hacker, Slovakia on the Road to Independence: An American Diplomat's Eyewitness Account, University Park, P.A.: The Pennsylvania State University Press, →ISBN, page 52:
synonyms: censure
pick at
glosses: To find fault (with something).
synonyms: censure
appraise
judge
glosses: To evaluate (something), assessing its merits and faults.
Synonyms: word: animadvert
word: admonish
word: bash
word: bawl out
word: blast
word: derogate
word: berate
word: berisp
word: castigate
word: censure
word: chastise
word: chew out
word: chide
word: condemn
word: criticize
word: denounce
word: denunciate
word: drag
word: dress down
word: eat someone alive
word: excoriate
word: find fault
word: fulminate
word: get down
word: get up
word: give somebody a piece of one's mind
word: give somebody what-for
word: inveigh
word: lace into
word: lambaste
word: lay into
word: lecture
word: light into
word: objurgate
word: pooh-pooh
word: put someone on blast
word: rate
word: read somebody the riot act
word: rebuke
word: reprehend
word: reprimand
word: reproach
word: reprove
word: rip into
word: rubbish
word: savage
word: scold
word: slam
word: tear into
word: tell off
word: threap
word: tick off
word: tosh
word: keelhaul
word: upbraid
word: vilify
word: vituperate
Hypernyms: word: communicate
Hyponyms: word: maul
word: pan
Derived terms: countercriticize
criticization
criticizer
criticizingly
hypercriticize
overcriticize
recriticize
uncriticized
uncriticizing
Related terms: word: critic
word: critical
word: criticism
word: criticizable
word: critique
word: scold
word: complain
word: blame
word: discipline