anticritical

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adjective

Opposing critics or criticism.

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Meanings

adjectiveanticritical (comparative more anticritical, superlative most anticritical)

comparative more anticritical · superlative most anticritical

  1. Opposing critics or criticism.

    In a recent conversation with a distinguished critic who chairs a comparative literature program and directs an undergraduate humanities program, I rediscovered an all-too-common anticritical dimension to so-called American pluralism.

    1992, Paul A. Bové, In the wake of theory, page 27

Origin

From anti- + critical.

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Translations

Portuguese anticrítico
  • anticríticoopposing critics or criticism
Cite this entry
APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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