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Carping

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Main Entry: carp
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: nag

Synonyms:

bother, cavil, censure, complain, criticize, find fault, fuss, grumble, hypercriticize, knock, nitpick, objurgate, pan, peck, pick at, quibble, reproach

Antonyms:

ignore, let go
Main Entry: carping
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: complaining

Synonyms:

bellyaching, caviling, censorious, critical, criticizing, deprecatory, disparaging, fault-finding, griping, grouchy, grousing, grumbling, hypercritical, kvetching, moaning, nagging, niggling, nit-picking, overcritical, quibbling, scathing, whining

Antonyms:

complimentary, forgiving
Main Entry: captious
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: very critical

Synonyms:

acrimonious, cantankerous, carping, caviling, cavillous, censorious, contrary, crabby, cross, demanding, deprecating, disparaging, exacting, exceptive, fault-finding, finicky, hypercritical, irritable, nagging, nit-picking, overcritical, peevish, perverse, petulant, sarcastic, severe, testy, touchy

Antonyms:

commendatory, complimentary, encouraging, flattering, laudatory, praising
Main Entry: censorious
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: very critical

Synonyms:

accusatory, captious, carping, caviling, cavillous, chiding, complaining, condemnatory, condemning, critical, culpatory, denouncing, disapproving, disparaging, fault-finding, hypercritical, overcritical, reprehending, reproaching, severe

Antonyms:

complimentary, encouraging, flattering, laudatory, praising
Main Entry: complain
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: grumble about

Synonyms:

accuse, ascribe, attack, beef, bellyache, bemoan, bewail, bitch, carp, cavil, charge, contravene, criticize, defy, demur, denounce, deplore, deprecate, differ, disagree, disapprove, dissent, expostulate, find fault, fret, fuss, gainsay, grieve, gripe, groan, grouse, growl, grumble, impute, indict, kick up a fuss, lament, lay, look askance, make a fuss, moan, nag, object, oppose, protest, refute, remonstrate, repine, reproach, snivel, sound off, take exception to, wail, whimper, whine, yammer

Antonyms:

applaud, approve, be content, be happy, commend, praise, recommend, sanction
Main Entry: critical
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: fault-finding, detracting

Synonyms:

analytical, belittling, biting, calumniatory, captious, carping, caviling, cavillous, censorious, censuring, choleric, condemning, critic, cutting, cynical, demanding, demeaning, derogatory, diagnostic, disapproving, discerning, discriminating, disparaging, exacting, exceptive, finicky, fussy, hairsplitting, humbling, hypercritical, lowering, nagging, niggling, nit-picking, overcritical, particular, penetrating, reproachful, sarcastic, satirical, scolding, severe, sharp, trenchant, withering

Antonyms:

complimentary, laudatory, praising
Main Entry: criticism
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: verbal disapproval

Synonyms:

Bronx cheer, animadversion, aspersion, bad press, blast, brickbats, call down, carping, cavil, caviling, censure, critical remarks, cut*, denunciation, disparagement, faultfinding, flak, hit*, knock*, nit-picking, objection, opprobrium, pan, panning, put down, quibble, rap on knuckles, reproof, roast, slam*, slap on wrist, slap, static, stricture, swipe, vitriol, zapper
Notes: a criticism is an evaluation or judgment of something, while critique is a somewhat elevated term for the same thing; review is used as a synonym for these but may also imply a more comprehensive study

Antonyms:

approval, compliment, praise
Main Entry: criticize
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: disapprove, judge as bad

Synonyms:

animadvert on, bash, blame, blast, blister, carp, castigate, censure, chastise, chide, clobber, come down on, condemn, cut down, cut to bits, cut up, denounce, denunciate, disparage, do a number on, dress down, excoriate, find fault, fluff, fulminate against, fustigate, give bad press, hit, jump on, knock*, lambaste*, nag at, nit-pick, pan, pick at, rap, reprehend, reprimand, reprobate, reprove, rip*, roast, scathe, scorch*, skin alive, skin*, slam*, slog, slug, take down, trash*, trim*, zap

Antonyms:

approve, compliment, laud, praise
Main Entry: fault-finding
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: critical

Synonyms:

captious, carping, fussy, hairsplitting, hard to please, hypercritical, nagging, niggling, nit-picking, overcritical, pettifogging, quibbling
Main Entry: fret
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: worry, be annoyed

Synonyms:

affront, agonize, anguish, bleed, bother, brood, carp, carry a heavy load, chafe, chagrin, distress oneself, eat one's heart out, fume, fuss, get into a dither, grieve, lose sleep over, mope, pother, stew, sweat it out, take on, torment, upset oneself

Antonyms:

calm, comfort, soothe
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