| 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: | libelous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | derogatory |
Synonyms: |
aspersive, backbiting, calumniatory, calumnious, contumelious, debasing, defamatory, depreciative, detracting, detractory, disparaging, false, injurious, invidious, malevolent, malicious, maligning, opprobrious, pejorative, sarcastic, scurrilous, traducing, untrue, vilifying, vituperative |
Antonyms: |
complimentary, praising |
| Main Entry: | opprobrious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abusive, hateful |
Synonyms: |
abasing, calumniatory, contemptuous, contumelious, damaging, debasing, defamatory, defaming, denigrating, depreciative, derogative, despicable, despiteful, detractive, disgracing, dishonoring, disparaging, humiliating, hurting, injuring, injurious, insolent, insulting, invective, libeling, malevolent, malign, malignant, maligning, notorious, offending, offensive, pejorative, reproaching, reviling, scandalous, scurrilous, shaming, spiteful, truculent, vile, vitriolic, vituperative, vulgar |
Antonyms: |
complimentary, flattering, kind, nice, praising |
| Main Entry: | slanderous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | libelous |
Synonyms: |
calumniatory, defamatory, disparaging, malicious, maligning, opprobrious |
| Main Entry: | calumnious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | slanderous |
Synonyms: |
calumniatory, defamatory, injurious, libelous, scandalous |
| Main Entry: | overcritical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | critical |
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, faultfinding, finicky, fussy, hairsplitting, humbling, hypercritical, lowering, nagging, niggling, nit-picking, particular, penetrating, reproachful, sarcastic, satirical, scolding, severe, sharp, trenchant, withering |