anticritic

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noun

An opponent of critics or criticism.

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Meanings

nounanticritic (plural anticritics)

plural anticritics

  1. An opponent of critics or criticism.

    There is a legitimate sense in which the book represents all that the resurgent amateurs and appreciators, the professed anticritics of the 1950's were protesting against.

    1965, William K. Wimsatt, Hateful Contraries, page 19

Origin

From anti- + critic.

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APA

anticritic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/anticritic

MLA

“anticritic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/anticritic. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “anticritic,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/anticritic.

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