Naysayer vs Critic - What's the difference?
naysayer | critic |
One who consistently denies, criticizes, or doubts; a detractor.
:He ignored the naysayers and succeeded with his idea.
A person who appraises the works of others.
* Macaulay
A specialist in judging works of art.
One who criticizes; a person who finds fault.
* I. Watts
An opponent.
(an act of criticism)
* Alexander Pope
(the art of criticism)
* John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Chapter 21, page 550
(obsolete, ambitransitive) To criticise.
* A. Brewer
As nouns the difference between naysayer and critic
is that naysayer is one who consistently denies, criticizes, or doubts; a detractor while critic is critic.As an adjective critic is
critical.naysayer
English
Alternative forms
* nay-sayerNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* pessimist, doubter, cynic, misanthropeAntonyms
* yeasayer, yea-sayercritic
English
(wikipedia critic)Alternative forms
* critick (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- When an author has many beauties consistent with virtue, piety, and truth, let not little critics exalt themselves, and shower down their ill nature.
- Make each day a critic on the last.
- 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.
Verb
- Nay, if you begin to critic once, we shall never have done.
