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Critic vs Significant - What's the difference?

critic | significant |

As adjectives the difference between critic and significant

is that critic is critical while significant is signifying something; carrying meaning.

As nouns the difference between critic and significant

is that critic is critic while significant is that which has significance; a sign; a token; a symbol.

critic

English

(wikipedia critic)

Alternative forms

* critick (archaic)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who appraises the works of others.
  • * Macaulay
    • The opinion of the most skilful critics was, that nothing finer [than Goldsmith's Traveller ] had appeared in verse since the fourth book of the Dunciad.
  • A specialist in judging works of art.
  • One who criticizes; a person who finds fault.
  • * I. Watts
    • When an author has many beauties consistent with virtue, piety, and truth, let not little critics exalt themselves, and shower down their ill nature.
  • An opponent.
  • (an act of criticism)
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Make each day a critic on the last.
  • (the art of criticism)
  • * John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Chapter 21, page 550
    • And, perhaps, if they were distinctly weighed, and duly considered, they would afford us another sort of logic and critic , than what we have been hitherto acquainted with.

    Related terms

    * crisis * criticism * critical * critical mass * criticize / criticise * critically * critique * criterion

    Verb

  • (obsolete, ambitransitive) To criticise.
  • * A. Brewer
    • Nay, if you begin to critic once, we shall never have done.

    Anagrams

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    significant

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Signifying something; carrying meaning.
    • a significant''' word or sound; a '''significant look
  • * Sir Walter Raleigh
    • It was well said of Plotinus, that the stars were significant , but not efficient.
  • Having a covert or hidden meaning.
  • Having a noticeable or major effect; notable.
    • That was a significant step in the right direction.
    The First World War was a significant event.
  • Reasonably large in number or amount.
  • (statistics) Having a low probability of occurring by chance (for example, having high correlation and thus likely to be related).

    • Related terms

    * significance * significant other * signify

    Synonyms

    * important

    Antonyms

    * insignificant * ignorable * negligible * slight

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • That which has significance; a sign; a token; a symbol.
    • (Wordsworth)
  • * Shakespeare
    • In dumb significants proclaim your thoughts.
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