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Criticize is a related term of criterion.


As a verb criticize

is to find fault (with something).

As a noun criterion is

a standard or test by which individual things or people may be compared and judged.

criticize

English

Alternative forms

* criticise (UK )

Verb

(criticiz) (transitive'' or ''intransitive )
  • to find fault (with something)
  • to evaluate (something), and judge its merits and faults

    • Hyponyms

    * find fault * shoot down * trash out * fustigate * drub * excoriate * run down

    Related terms

    * critic * critical * criticism * critique * criticizable

    See also

    * scold * complain

    External links

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    criterion

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (nonstandard) * criterium

    Noun

    (criteria)
  • A standard or test by which individual things or people may be compared and judged.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-11-30, volume=409, issue=8864, magazine=(The Economist), author=Paul Davis
    • , title= Letters: Say it as simply as possible , passage=Congratulations on managing to use the phrase “preponderant criterion ” in a chart (“ On your marks”, November 9th). Was this the work of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set a challenge by his colleagues, or simply an example of glossolalia?}}

    Usage notes

    * The plural form criterions also exists, but is much less common. * The form criteria is sometimes used as a nonstandard singular form (as in a criteria'', ''this criteria , and so on), with corresponding plural form criterias. In this use, it sometimes means “a single criterion”, sometimes “a set of criteria”.

    Related terms

    * criterial * crisis * critic * criticize * critical

    External links

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    Anagrams

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