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We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.
Ani DiFranco

Meaning of "criticise" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CRITICISE

criticise  [ˈkrɪtɪˌsaɪz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CRITICISE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Criticise is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb criticise in English.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO CRITICISE

PRESENT

Present
I criticise
you criticise
he/she/it criticises
we criticise
you criticise
they criticise
Present continuous
I am criticising
you are criticising
he/she/it is criticising
we are criticising
you are criticising
they are criticising
Present perfect
I have criticised
you have criticised
he/she/it has criticised
we have criticised
you have criticised
they have criticised
Present perfect continuous
I have been criticising
you have been criticising
he/she/it has been criticising
we have been criticising
you have been criticising
they have been criticising
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I criticised
you criticised
he/she/it criticised
we criticised
you criticised
they criticised
Past continuous
I was criticising
you were criticising
he/she/it was criticising
we were criticising
you were criticising
they were criticising
Past perfect
I had criticised
you had criticised
he/she/it had criticised
we had criticised
you had criticised
they had criticised
Past perfect continuous
I had been criticising
you had been criticising
he/she/it had been criticising
we had been criticising
you had been criticising
they had been criticising
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will criticise
you will criticise
he/she/it will criticise
we will criticise
you will criticise
they will criticise
Future continuous
I will be criticising
you will be criticising
he/she/it will be criticising
we will be criticising
you will be criticising
they will be criticising
Future perfect
I will have criticised
you will have criticised
he/she/it will have criticised
we will have criticised
you will have criticised
they will have criticised
Future perfect continuous
I will have been criticising
you will have been criticising
he/she/it will have been criticising
we will have been criticising
you will have been criticising
they will have been criticising
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would criticise
you would criticise
he/she/it would criticise
we would criticise
you would criticise
they would criticise
Conditional continuous
I would be criticising
you would be criticising
he/she/it would be criticising
we would be criticising
you would be criticising
they would be criticising
Conditional perfect
I would have criticise
you would have criticise
he/she/it would have criticise
we would have criticise
you would have criticise
they would have criticise
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been criticising
you would have been criticising
he/she/it would have been criticising
we would have been criticising
you would have been criticising
they would have been criticising
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you criticise
we let´s criticise
you criticise
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to criticise
Past participle
criticised
Present Participle
criticising
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CRITICISE


aestheticize
iːsˈθɛtɪˌsaɪz
anticize
ˈæntɪˌsaɪz
antisepticize
ˌæntɪˈsɛptɪˌsaɪz
asepticize
eɪˈseptɪˌsaɪz
atticize
ˈætɪˌsaɪz
criticize
ˈkrɪtɪˌsaɪz
depoliticise
ˌdiːpəˈlɪtɪˌsaɪz
depoliticize
ˌdiːpəˈlɪtɪˌsaɪz
elasticise
ɪˈlæstɪˌsaɪz
elasticize
ɪˈlæstɪˌsaɪz
eroticise
ɪˈrɒtɪˌsaɪz
eroticize
ɪˈrɒtɪˌsaɪz
fanaticize
fəˈnætɪˌsaɪz
hypercriticize
ˌhaɪpəˈkrɪtɪˌsaɪz
mathematicize
ˌmæθəˈmætɪˌsaɪz
multisize
ˈmʌltɪˌsaɪz
plasticize
ˈplæstɪˌsaɪz
politicize
pəˈlɪtɪˌsaɪz
romanticize
rəʊˈmæntɪˌsaɪz
rusticize
ˈrʌstɪˌsaɪz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CRITICISE

critical path method
critical period
critical point
critical pressure
critical region
critical state
critical temperature
critical volume
criticality
critically
criticalness
criticaster
criticisable
criticiser
criticisingly
criticism
criticizable
criticize
criticizer
criticizingly

WORDS THAT END LIKE CRITICISE

aestheticise
catholicise
classicise
domesticise
ethicise
exercise
fanaticise
Gallicise
Gothicise
Hispanicise
historicise
hypercriticise
italicise
laicise
metricise
mythicise
phoneticise
plasticise
polemicise
politicise
publicise

Synonyms and antonyms of criticise in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «criticise» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CRITICISE

Find out the translation of criticise to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of criticise from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «criticise» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

批评
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

criticar
570 millions of speakers

English

criticise
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

आलोचना
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

انتقاد
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

критиковать
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

criticar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সমালোচনা করা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

critiquer
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Mengkritik
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

kritisieren
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

批判する
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

비판
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nyalahake
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chỉ trích
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

விமர்சிக்கத்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

टीका
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

eleştirmek
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

criticare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

krytykować
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

критикувати
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

critica
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

επικρίνουν
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kritiseer
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kriti
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kritisere
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of criticise

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CRITICISE»

The term «criticise» is quite widely used and occupies the 44.592 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CRITICISE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «criticise» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «criticise» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about criticise

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10 QUOTES WITH «CRITICISE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word criticise.
1
Rosanna Arquette
Criticism really used to hurt me. Most of these critics are usually frustrated artists, and they criticise other people's art because they can't do it themselves. It's a really disgusting job. They must feel horrible inside.
2
Abhishek Bachchan
Critics have a job to do. They do not criticise you without reason.
3
Linford Christie
If you criticise something then you have to have an alternative, but we do have to try and improve things.
4
Noel Clarke
People can criticise me all day long. It just washes off me. You might as well be talking to a wall.
5
Bob Diamond
My obligation is to the owners of Barclays, my shareholders. They hired me. People who criticise compensation for individuals in isolation at, say, BarCap, individuals who don't work in the U.K. and are competing with U.S., German or Asian banks, they should look at all these factors.
6
Ani DiFranco
We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.
7
Natalie Dormer
I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.
8
Bruno Dumont
Women exist in my imagination. So they are necessarily a type of abstraction. Many women criticise me for this vision, but I explain to them it's to be expected, because I am a man.
9
Lesley Garrett
I wouldn't want to criticise someone like Charlotte Church because she has done fantastically well, but personally I've always cared about the long term.
10
Joanne Harris
In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned - or the very brilliant - dared enter the arena of literary criticism. To criticise a person's work required equal measures of erudition and wit, and inferior critics were often the butt of satire and ridicule.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CRITICISE»

Discover the use of criticise in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to criticise and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Virginia Woolf and the Real World
System. "I want to criticise the social system, & to show it at work, at its most intense" (D, II, 248). Woolf's provocative statement about her intentions in writing Mrs. Dalloway has regularly been ignored. It denies the traditional view of her work as ...
Alex Zwerdling, 1986
2
Oral Discourse and Education: 3
learning how to criticise a student must also learn to respect the achievements of the past. Criticism can be precipitate, premature, and utopian as well as appropriate, timely and realistic. To some extent, students cannot criticise effectively until ...
Bronwyn Davies, David Corson, 1999
3
A Concordance to the Poems of Robert Browning
573.72 Balaustion 2663 Criticise. See also Criticize. Would let her advise, and criticise 358.56 Flight Duch. 196 Here's mine, a bishop's outfit; criticise! 467.83 Bishop B. 148 You criticise the soul ? it reared this tree — 463.13 Bishop B. 608 ...
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Conceptual Structure in Lexical Items: The Lexicalisation of ...
The well- or ill-formedness of these examples suggests what are essential properties of the meaning of criticise: criticise is a factive verb: the proposition expressed in the complement clause is presupposed (1 la). It is the case that the Prime ...
Kristel Proost, 2007
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English Synonymes Explained in Alphabetical Order: With ...
CRITICISE, v. Animadversion. To censure expresses leas than to animad- vtrl or criticise ; one may always censure when one animadvert! or criticise!. To censure and animadvert are both personal, the one direct, the other indirect ; criticism is ...
George Crabb, 1826
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English/German Dictionary of Idioms: Supplement to the ...
to criticise s.o./s.th. Kritik: Kritik an jm./er S. üben (not) to be able to criticise s.o. anhaben: jm. etwas/viel/nichts/... anhabenkönnen to criticise o.s. Selbstkritik: Selbstkritik üben to look for s.th. to quibble about/to complain about/to find fault with/to ...
Professor Hans Schemann, 2013
7
People Manipulation: A Positive Approach
Criticise Smoothly Criticism is not something which is relished by people when it is targeted at themselves. Nobody likes being criticised. Remember, people dislike those who don't agree with them. If you criticise them, it implies you don't ...
Prabbal Frank, 2009
8
The Power of Tapping
We also criticise ourselves for what we have done, for what we haven't done, for the problems we have, for our perceived failures and for decisions and choices that we have made. What we don't realise is that we are giving ourselves what I ...
Margaret Munoz, 2005
9
Sourcebook On Intellectual Property Law
Mr Vosper is entitled to criticise not only the literary style but also the doctrine or philosophy of Mr Hubbard as expanded in the books. Mr Pain took yet another point. This was on the bulletins and letters. These, he said, were not published to  ...
Peter Groves, 1997
10
Reason, Truth and Self: The Postmodern Reconditioned
basis on which to criticise the status quo. We will have no resources to criticise fundamentalists wherever they occur, nor they to criticise the liberals who tolerate blasphemy of one kind or another. We will have no grounds to criticise those who  ...
Michael Luntley, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CRITICISE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term criticise is used in the context of the following news items.
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Jana Sena chief Pawan Kalyan tweets his rage
Andhra Pradesh will not get special status if you criticise me.” Interestingly, hours before this battle of tweets started, filmmaker Ramgopal ... «The Hindu, Jul 15»
2
Relatives of victims criticise government over spate of insecurity
Emotions ran high at Gathaithini village in Nyeri county yesterday after it emerged that nine of the murdered quarry workers were cousins who ... «K24 TV, Jul 15»
3
Let's criticise NHIS constructively
The Ashanti Regional Director of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Mr Daniel Acheampong-Frimpong, has urged stakeholders in ... «Graphic Online, Jul 15»
4
Dragon Oil shareholders criticise Enoc bid
If you are a new, paid MEED subscriber accessing the site for the first time, please activate your account. If you are a registered user who would ... «MEED, Jul 15»
5
Drivers criticise another pedestrian crossing down Worcester's busy …
DRIVERS have hit out over a new traffic light controlled crossing down one of Worcester's most congested roads - just 90 metres from the next ... «Evesham Journal, Jul 15»
6
Labour candidates criticise plan to relax Sunday trading laws
Trade unions as well as some supermarkets question the wisdom of removing the restrictions on Sunday opening hours. Photograph: Alamy. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
7
Watchdog criticise energy giants for overcharging on standard …
Watchdogs criticised the Big Six energy firms today for overcharging loyal customers by around £1.2billion a year on standard variable tariffs ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
8
Charities criticise government over €18.5m homeless budget shortfall
Leading charity figures have strongly criticised the Government for an €18.5m shortfall in Dublin City Council's allocated funding for homeless ... «Irish Independent, Jul 15»
9
UN, Council of Europe criticise Hungary's new asylum rules
Members of a Facebook-organized civilian group distribute food and beverage among migrants at the Keleti Railway Station in Budapest, ... «New Europe, Jul 15»
10
Q&A panellists criticise Abbott government for frontbenchers ban
Panellists on Q&A have unanimously criticised the Abbott government for banning government ministers from appearing on the ABC TV ... «SBS, Jul 15»

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