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- pronunciation:
- krI
tihk
- features:
- Word Explorer, Word Parts
| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
anyone who judges or evaluates.
Jill's piano teacher is a harsh critic at times.- synonyms:
- evaluator, judge
- similar words:
- censor, editor
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| definition 2: |
a person whose work is to judge and write opinions about music, movies, plays, art, and literature.
The new play received a lot of praise from the critics in the newspapers.- similar words:
- censor, commentator, editor, editorialist
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| related words: |
writer |
The word critic
contains the following part:
-ic
Latin and Greek
adjective-forming suffix
that means like, pertaining to
  More about this word part:
The suffix -ic
attaches to roots and words of Greek or Latin origin to form adjectives. A few words ending in -ic
(magic
, critic
, music
) were adjectives that became nouns in Greek before they entered English, also as nouns.
Example words:
aerobic, antibiotic, aquatic, civic, comic, critic, democratic, domestic, dramatic, eccentric, economic, erratic, fantastic, geometric, magic, microscopic, music, pathetic, periodic, physical, physics, sonic, sympathetic
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