Definition for Criticism:

• The art or the act of judging of a work of literature or art: a critical judgment.

Synonyms for Criticism:

• n.

  •
  • harangue,
  • lecture,
  • diatribe,
  • quibble,
  • judgment,
  • remonstrance,
  • attack,
  • study,
  • talking to.
  •
  • articulate,
  • formulate,
  • express,
  • state,
  • survey,
  • air,
  • exposition,
  • remark.
  •
  • knock,
  • recrimination,
  • pan,
  • uproar,
  • Bashing,
  • barrage,
  • mud,
  • reprobation.
  •
  • notice,
  • words.
  •accusation (noun)
  • accusation,
  • allegation,
  • condemnation,
  • grievance,
  • complaint,
  • impeachment,
  • censure,
  • insinuation,
  • indictment,
  • reproach,
  • allegement,
  • blame,
  • imputation,
  • incrimination,
  • citation,
  • accusal,
  • charge,
  • denouncement.
  •blame (noun)
  • impeachment,
  • recrimination,
  • objurgation,
  • reproach,
  • reprobation,
  • animadversion,
  • imputation,
  • reprehension.
  •censure (noun)
  • stricture,
  • objection,
  • carping,
  • faultfinding.
  •cognition (noun)
  • critique.
  •communication (noun)
  • unfavorable judgment.
  •condemnation (noun)
  • blame,
  • disapproval.
  •criticism (noun)
  • unfavorable judgment,
  • literary criticism,
  • critique,
  • judgement.
  •disapproval (noun)
  • chastisement,
  • admonishment,
  • denigration,
  • deprecation,
  • castigation,
  • scorn,
  • renouncement,
  • defamation,
  • disapproval,
  • vilification,
  • derision,
  • disparagement.
  •discourse (noun)
  • descant.
  •dissertation (noun)
  • position,
  • dissertation,
  • hypothesis,
  • research,
  • thesis,
  • contention,
  • conjecture,
  • examination,
  • opinion,
  • assertion,
  • critique,
  • analysis,
  • postulation,
  • discussion,
  • argument,
  • commentary,
  • article,
  • interpolation,
  • premise,
  • essay.
  •interpretation, analysis (noun)
  • critique,
  • sleighride,
  • estimate,
  • rating,
  • appraisal,
  • comment,
  • evaluation,
  • appreciation,
  • commentary,
  • assessment,
  • opinion,
  • scorcher,
  • rave,
  • Reviewal,
  • sideswipe,
  • notice,
  • pan,
  • judgment,
  • observation,
  • exposition,
  • essay,
  • review,
  • study,
  • elucidation,
  • examination.
  •obloquy (noun)
  • bad press.
  •punishment (noun)
  • chastisement.
  •quibble (noun)
  • quibble.
  •response (noun)
  • feedback.
  •trenchancy (noun)
  • trenchancy.
  •verbal disapproval (noun)
  • caviling,
  • call down,
  • static,
  • denunciation,
  • rap on knuckles,
  • opprobrium,
  • knock,
  • cavil,
  • critical remarks,
  • slam,
  • blast,
  • brickbats,
  • slap,
  • censure,
  • roast,
  • faultfinding,
  • disparagement,
  • Bronx Cheer,
  • stricture,
  • aspersion,
  • flak,
  • animadversion,
  • cut,
  • nit-picking,
  • zapper,
  • quibble,
  • vitriol,
  • slap on wrist,
  • bad press,
  • Panning,
  • HIT,
  • objection,
  • reproof,
  • swipe,
  • carping.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • firestorm,
  • brickbat,
  • nitpicking,
  • comment,
  • reprobation,
  • tongue-lashing,
  • slam,
  • disapprobation,
  • barb,
  • faultfinding,
  • obloquy,
  • opprobrium,
  • harangue,
  • diatribe,
  • talking to,
  • mudslinging,
  • disfavor,
  • Backbiting,
  • telling-off,
  • vitriol,
  • backstabbing.
  •
  • denunciation,
  • sideswipe,
  • recrimination,
  • satire,
  • explanation,
  • barrage,
  • attack,
  • lecture,
  • interpretation,
  • Bashing,
  • objection.
  •
  • pan,
  • mud,
  • assault,
  • blast.
  •
  • heat.
  •
  • notice.
  •
  • stick.
  •censure
  • stricture.
  •discourse
  • descant.
  •satire
  • sarcasm.
  •Other relevant words:
  • descant,
  • cynicism,
  • thrust,
  • annotate,
  • denunciation,
  • objection,
  • Pathognomy,
  • aspersion,
  • annotation,
  • slur,
  • cut,
  • obiter dictum,
  • stricture,
  • dissatisfaction,
  • gloss,
  • dressing down,
  • word,
  • notice,
  • slap,
  • scurrility,
  • Bronx Cheer,
  • chewing out,
  • punishment,
  • keep,
  • state,
  • slap on wrist,
  • cavil,
  • barb,
  • Hypercriticism,
  • estimate,
  • behold,
  • air,
  • disclosure,
  • editorial,
  • comply,
  • Semeiotics,
  • reprimand,
  • celebrate,
  • assault,
  • work,
  • leader,
  • expound,
  • sarcasm,
  • survey,
  • nagging,
  • Marginalia,
  • knock,
  • journalism,
  • faultfinding,
  • caviling,
  • nitpicking,
  • left-handed compliment,
  • detect,
  • remark,
  • uproar,
  • tongue-lashing,
  • feedback,
  • non-fiction,
  • upbraiding,
  • point of view,
  • express,
  • wigging,
  • poem,
  • Scholium,
  • disfavor,
  • lexicography,
  • review,
  • appraisal,
  • composition,
  • appreciation,
  • feel,
  • critique,
  • observation,
  • Exegetics,
  • slam,
  • berating,
  • feeling,
  • Semeiology,
  • argue,
  • blast,
  • harangue,
  • Captiousness,
  • poetry,
  • rebuff,
  • brickbats,
  • fiction,
  • interpretation,
  • flak,
  • call down,
  • vitriol,
  • repercussion,
  • Cavilling,
  • irony,
  • award,
  • judgment,
  • Decrial,
  • articulate,
  • Commentation,
  • explanation,
  • illustration,
  • examen,
  • letter,
  • Metoposcopy,
  • proclamation,
  • impression,
  • pickiness,
  • sleighride,
  • rap,
  • scolding,
  • Tropology,
  • report,
  • translation,
  • formulate,
  • put-down,
  • zapper,
  • resolution,
  • book review,
  • critical review,
  • Reviewal,
  • dissection,
  • blowing up,
  • opprobrium,
  • heat,
  • mediate,
  • Fault-finding,
  • reprehension,
  • priggishness,
  • backstabbing,
  • see,
  • vituperation,
  • physiognomy,
  • textual criticism,
  • hairsplitting,
  • Panning,
  • pettifogging,
  • note,
  • pronouncement,
  • rating,
  • roast,
  • criticize,
  • hair-splitting,
  • footnote,
  • reference,
  • exposition,
  • writing,
  • account,
  • quibbling,
  • beef,
  • theme,
  • literary criticism,
  • chiding,
  • static,
  • commemorate,
  • niggling,
  • epigraphy,
  • censoriousness,
  • renew,
  • offence,
  • attack,
  • innuendo,
  • description,
  • critical remarks,
  • revilement,
  • paleography,
  • pestering,
  • reflection,
  • Oneirology,
  • philosophy,
  • mud,
  • expansion,
  • trenchancy,
  • delineation,
  • interpret,
  • telling-off,
  • diatribe,
  • physiognomics,
  • animadversion,
  • lecture,
  • definition,
  • treat,
  • Bashing,
  • utterance,
  • roasting,
  • write up,
  • study,
  • Reproachfulness,
  • check,
  • quibble,
  • admonition,
  • nit-picking,
  • sentiment,
  • obloquy,
  • brickbat,
  • discover,
  • niggle,
  • comment on,
  • talk over,
  • assessment,
  • reproof,
  • exegesis,
  • discuss,
  • valuation,
  • running commentary,
  • protestation,
  • sideswipe,
  • potshot,
  • Backbiting,
  • insult,
  • evaluation,
  • explication,
  • look,
  • stick,
  • eisegesis,
  • observe,
  • cryptanalysis,
  • carping,
  • clarification,
  • swipe,
  • mention,
  • sardonic grin,
  • barrage,
  • critic,
  • cryptology,
  • comment,
  • hermeneutics,
  • slating,
  • criticalness,
  • book,
  • commentate,
  • follow,
  • Symptomatology,
  • satire,
  • declaration,
  • reproval,
  • mudslinging,
  • recrimination,
  • reprobation,
  • dig,
  • talking to,
  • firestorm,
  • exception,
  • mordancy,
  • review article,
  • rebuke,
  • nit,
  • disapprobation,
  • simplification,
  • invective,
  • remonstrance,
  • bad press,
  • rap on knuckles,
  • words,
  • mordacity,
  • pan,
  • publication,
  • flack,
  • Atomism,
  • fulfill,
  • elucidation,
  • novel,
  • abuse,
  • Hell,
  • taking exception,
  • disfavour,
  • announcement,
  • rave,
  • objurgation,
  • cryptography,
  • HIT,
  • shot,
  • correspondence,
  • document,
  • unfavorable judgment,
  • diagnostics,
  • column,
  • scorcher,
  • writings,
  • negotiate,
  • sardonic laugh,
  • fussiness,
  • Remonstration,
  • expostulation,
  • displeasure.

Antonyms for Criticism:

• n.

  • interpretation, analysis
    compliment, heedlessness, guess, praise, supposition, approval, estimation, neglect.
  • verbal disapproval
    flattery, sanction.
  • Other antonyms:
    encomium, eulogy, commendation, panegyric, praise, applause.