Criticise

Definition: Criticise

Criticise

Verb

1. Find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws; "The paper criticized the new movie".

2. Act as a critic; "Those who criticize others often are not perfect, either".

Date "criticise" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references)

Synonyms: Criticise

Synonyms: criticize (v), pick apart (v). (additional references)

Antonym: praise (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Taste	Verb: appreciate, judge, criticise, discriminate;
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Criticise

English words defined with "criticise": Bepommel ♦ Criticised, Criticising ♦ Hypercriticise ♦ Perstringe. (references)

Specialty definitions using "criticise": Lookers-on ♦ Slate One, Supply "to". (references)

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	It was the first time, since the beginning of their housekeeping, that she had dared to criticise the act of her master.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Criticise" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 78.57% of the time. "Criticise" is used about 420 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	78.57%	330	15,812
Lexical Verb (base form)	20%	84	36,109
Noun (singular)	1.43%	6	143,867
Total	100.00%	420	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "criticise"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		kritikoj (animadvert, attack, censure, crab, criticize, hit, pan, slam), bëj kritikën (criticize). (various references)

Chinese		批评 (Backbiting, Criticised, Criticising, Criticism, criticize, Critique). (various references)

Greek		κριτικάρω (criticize), επικρίνω (animadvert, carp, censure, crab, criticism, criticize, decry, fulminate, objurgate, pan, reprove, scarify, score, upbraid). (various references)

Hungarian		bírálgat (carp). (various references)

Italian		criticare (animadvert, blame, censure, chide, comment, criticize, knock, objurgate, slam, slate, tear into). (various references)

Korean		강평하십시�" (criticize). (various references)

Pig Latin		iticisecray

Welsh		beirniadu (adjudicate, animadvert). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "criticise": criticised, criticises. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-c-e-i-i-i-r-s-t"
	-1 letter: icterics.
	-2 letters: cretics, critics, eristic, icteric.
	-3 letters: cercis, citers, cities, citric, cretic, crisic, critic, iciest, iritic, iritis, steric, trices.
	-4 letters: cerci, ceric, cesti, cires, citer, cites, crest, cries, icier, ictic, recti, rices, rites, tiers, tires, trice, tries.
	-5 letters: cire, cist, cite, cris, erst, etic, ices, ires, iris, recs, reis, rest, rets, rice, rise, rite, sect.
	Words containing the letters "c-c-e-i-i-i-r-s-t"
	+1 letter: cervicitis, circuities, criticised, criticises, criticizes.
	+2 letters: circuitries, criticizers, intricacies.
	+3 letters: accipitrines, centricities, cervicitises, chronicities, clavieristic, coercivities, recidivistic.
	+4 letters: circularities, criticalities, electricities, farcicalities, interspecific, intraspecific, prescientific, reciprocities, viscosimetric.
	+5 letters: certifications, chromaticities, churchianities, cliometricians, eccentricities, hypercriticism, inarticulacies, mercantilistic, perspicacities, practicalities, precipitancies, rectifications, reductionistic, saccharinities, stoichiometric.
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Criticise

Definition: Criticise

Criticise

Verb

Synonyms: Criticise

Synonyms within Context: Criticise

Taste

Crosswords: Criticise

Use in Literature: Criticise

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Usage Frequency: Criticise

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Criticise

criticise

Modern Translation: Criticise

Albanian

Chinese

Greek

Hungarian

Italian

Korean

Pig Latin

Welsh

Derivations: Criticise

Derivations

Anagrams: Criticise

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

INDEX

Expression	Frequency per Day
criticise	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.