Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to criticize
Participle: criticized
Gerund: criticizing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | criticize |
| you | criticize |
| he;she;it | criticizes |
| we | criticize |
| you | criticize |
| they | criticize |
Perfect
| I | have criticized |
| you | have criticized |
| he;she;it | has criticized |
| we | have criticized |
| you | have criticized |
| they | have criticized |
Past
| I | criticized |
| you | criticized |
| he;she;it | criticized |
| we | criticized |
| you | criticized |
| they | criticized |
Pluperfect
| I | had criticized |
| you | had criticized |
| he;she;it | had criticized |
| we | had criticized |
| you | had criticized |
| they | had criticized |
Future
| I | will criticize |
| you | will criticize |
| he;she;it | will criticize |
| we | will criticize |
| you | will criticize |
| they | will criticize |
Future Perfect
| I | will have criticized |
| you | will have criticized |
| he;she;it | will have criticized |
| we | will have criticized |
| you | will have criticized |
| they | will have criticized |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | criticize |
| you | criticize |
| he;she;it | criticize |
| we | criticize |
| you | criticize |
| they | criticize |
Perfect
| I | have criticized |
| you | have criticized |
| he;she;it | have criticized |
| we | have criticized |
| you | have criticized |
| they | have criticized |
Imperfect
| I | criticized |
| you | criticized |
| he;she;it | criticized |
| we | criticized |
| you | criticized |
| they | criticized |
Pluperfect
| I | had criticized |
| you | had criticized |
| he;she;it | had criticized |
| we | had criticized |
| you | had criticized |
| they | had criticized |
Conditional
Present
| I | would criticize |
| you | would criticize |
| he;she;it | would criticize |
| we | would criticize |
| you | would criticize |
| they | would criticize |
Perfect
| I | would have criticized |
| you | would have criticized |
| he;she;it | would have criticized |
| we | would have criticized |
| you | would have criticized |
| they | would have criticized |
Imperative
| you | criticize |
| we | Let's criticize |
| you | criticize |
Verbs conjugated like 'criticize'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'criticize'
cliticize,
criticise,
arcticize,
celticize,
chitinize,
cretinize,
eroticize,
anticize,
Arabicize,
artilize,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- To scold or berate somebody; to reprimand.
- admonish
- To criticize harshly.
- bash
- to convey one's disapproval of
- bawl out, chew out, drag, eat someone alive, excoriate, get up, lace into, lambaste, light into, rip into, tear into, tick off, tosh
- To rate or chide vehemently; to scold or lecture.
- berate
- to censure, reprove.
- berisp
- To punish severely; to criticize severely; to reprimand severely
- castigate
- to formally rebuke
- censure
- To punish or scold someone.
- chastise
- to loudly admonish in blame; to angrily reproach
- chide
- To strongly criticise or denounce
- condemn
- To criticize or speak out against someone or something.
- denounce
- To condemn openly.
- denunciate
- To make a verbal attack.
- fulminate
- To express one's opinion strongly; to voice one's disagreement or dissatisfaction.
- give somebody a piece of one's mind
- To admonish or berate; to speak angrily at somebody.
- give somebody what-for
- To give voice to one's censure or criticism.
- inveigh
- To berate, to scold.
- lecture
- To rebuke or scold strongly.
- objurgate
- To scold or berate somebody; to reprimand.
- read somebody the riot act
- To criticise harshly; to reprove.
- rebuke
- to criticize, to reprove
- reprehend
- To reprove in a formal or official way.
- reprimand
- To criticize or rebuke someone.
- reproach
- To convey one’s disapproval of; to rebuke, especially in a gentle, sweet, kind tone.
- reprove
- To rebuke.
- scold
- To speak to someone rudely, disrespectfully or angrily; to berate; to unleash one's fury verbally towards someone.
- tell off
- To scold, rebuke, chide, or reprimand.
- threap
- To criticize severely.
- upbraid
- To belittle through speech.
- vilify
- blame
- chastise, censure, reprove, condemn, reprimand, denounce, knock
- study
- probe, scrutinize
Antonyms
- to convey one's disapproval of
- compliment, congratulate, laud
- blame
- praise, credit, honor, commend
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From critic + -ize; first element from Ancient Greek κριτικός (kritikós, “of or for judging, able to discern”), from κρίσις (krísis, “decision, judgement”).
Verbs referencing "criticize"
Finnish with old forms
kritikoida.
Sample Sentences
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They criticized him for endangering people's lives.
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Homophobia is based on criticizing any sexual expression outside of procreational sex. [1988 August 13, Elizabeth Pincus, “1978 Revisited”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 5, page 7:]
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Since when is it a hanging offense to criticize someone who's not doing the job he's paid generously to do? [1999 June 18, Rod Beaton, “Astros winning despite obstacles”, in USA Today:]
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But far from being naïve Scandinavist ideologists, Blix et al. continually criticizes the utopian Scandinavists' talk of brotherhood and 'one culture', but also—and perhaps most importantly—made cultural separatism and provincialism, particularly in Norway, the object of crass satire. [2009, Eirik Vassenden, “Norway: The Province and its Metropolities”, in Peter Brooker, Andrew Thacker, editors, The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines, volume 3, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 658:]
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Then Federal Minister of Environment Antonin Vavrougek had strongly criticized the entire project while working at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Prague, taking a more limitationist view about the possibilities of generating electricity and a more alarmist view about the effect on drinking water supplies. [2010, Paul Hacker, Slovakia on the Road to Independence: An American Diplomat's Eyewitness Account, University Park, P.A.: The Pennsylvania State University Press, →ISBN, page 52:]