critics
SayKRIT-iks/ˈkɹɪt.ɪks/
- 1Plural of critic.
The film divided critics, with some praising its ambition and others calling it dull.
Her latest novel won over even her harshest critics.
Note
A regular plural that carries every sense of its singular, so context decides which crowd is meant. Beside a film or a novel it usually means reviewers judging the work; with a possessive, as in her harshest critics, it leans toward fault-finders or opponents. Older English also used critic for a critique, so in early texts critics can mean pieces of criticism rather than the people who write them.
critics is a form of critic
critic, noun: A person who finds fault or expresses disapproval of someone or something. Full entry
- Forms
- criticcritics plural
- Spelling
- critic → critics: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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