Synonyms for criticize
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Synonyms by meaning
Verb
1. Castigate — to evaluate (something), assessing its merits and faults
castigate, condemn, denounce, judge, excoriate, vilify, lambast UK, lamblast US, scold, blame, rebuke, censure, attack, reprimand, fault, appraise, slam informal, lash, estimate, light into, pan, blast, slate UK
2. Pick apart
pick apart, knock informal, chew out slang US
Other
discuss, eat someone alive informal, pick at, rubbish informal UK AU IE, drag slang
Definitions
- v. 1
To evaluate (something), assessing its merits and faults.
- v. 2
To find fault (with something).
They criticized him for endangering people's lives.
Related words
- Word family
- criticization criticizer critic critical criticism criticizable critique
- Is a kind of
- communicate revile
- Other spellings
- criticise UK
Forms
- Past participle
- criticized
e.g. criticized → castigated, condemned, denounced, judged…
Example sentences
- judge You can't judge their works by the same standards.
- condemn Would you condemn your friend for the same thing?
- denounce The alterglobalists denounce growing inequalities.
- castigate Don't castigate me. I haven't done anything wrong.
- discuss I have a lot of friends I can discuss things with.
By length
- 3 letters
- pan1
- 4 letters
- drag1, slam1, lash1
- 5 letters
- judge1, blame1, fault1, blast1, knock1, slate1, scold1
- 6 letters
- attack2, rebuke2, vilify3
- 7 letters
- discuss2, rubbish2, condemn2, censure2, lambast
- 8 letters
- estimate3, denounce2, appraise2, lamblast
- 9 letters
- reprimand3, castigate3, excoriate4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (attack2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- critiquer
- Italiano
- criticare
- Español
- criticar
- Deutsch
- begutachten
- Català
- criticar