| Main Entry: | faultfinding |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | petty and critical |
Synonyms: |
berating, captious, carping, caviling, censorious, niggling, querulous |
Antonyms: |
praising |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | complaint |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | statement of disagreement, discontent |
Synonyms: |
CC, accusation, annoyance, beef, cavil, charge, clamor, criticism, dissatisfaction, expostulation, fault-finding, grievance, gripe, grouse, grumble, guff, jeremiad, kick, lament, moan, objection, plaint, protest, protestation, rap, remonstrance, remonstration, representation, reproach, rumble*, squawk, stink, trouble, wail, whine |
Antonyms: |
applause, approval, commendation, contentedness, happiness, praise, recommendation, sanction |
| 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: | cross |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very angry; in a bad mood |
Synonyms: |
annoyed, cantankerous, captious, caviling, choleric, churlish, crabby, cranky, crotchety, crusty, disagreeable, faultfinding, fractious, fretful, grouchy, grumpy, ill-humored, ill-tempered, impatient, irascible, irritable, jumpy, out of humor, peeved, peevish, pettish, petulant, put out, querulous, quick-tempered, ratty, short, snappy, splenetic, sullen, surly, testy, tetchy, touchy, vexed, waspish |
Antonyms: |
animated, cheerful, happy, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | derogatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | offensive, uncomplimentary |
Synonyms: |
aspersing, belittling, calumnious, censorious, contumelious, critical, damaging, decrying, defamatory, degrading, demeaning, deprecatory, depreciative, despiteful, detracting, disdainful, dishonoring, disparaging, fault-finding, humiliating, injurious, malevolent, malicious, maligning, minimizing, opprobrious, reproachful, sarcastic, scornful, slanderous, slighting, spiteful, unfavorable, unflattering, vilifying |
Antonyms: |
appreciative, complimentary, favorable, flattering, praising |
| Main Entry: | dissatisfied |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | discontented, unhappy |
Synonyms: |
annoyed, begrudging, bothered, complaining, crabby, critical, disaffected, disappointed, disgruntled, displeased, ennuied, envious, faultfinding, fed-up, fretful, fretting, frustrated, griping, grudging, grumbling, grumpy*, insatiable, irked, jaundiced, jealous, kvetching, malcontent, malcontented, not satisfied, offended, picky, plaintive, put-out, querulous, sniveling, sulky, sullen, unappeased, unassuaged, unfulfilled, ungratified, unsated, unsatisfied, vexed |
Antonyms: |
contented, fulfilled, gratified, happy, pleased, satisfied |
| 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 |