critique

1. 1.

   appraise critically

   “She reviews books for the New York Times”

   “Please critique this performance”

   Synonymsreview

   Broaderevaluate

   Narrowerreferee

Other forms of critique

plural

critiques·

past tense

critiqued·

present participle

critiquing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about critique

What does critique mean?

critique means "an essay or article that gives a critical evaluation (as of a book or play)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in critique?

critique has 2 syllables: critiq-ue. The stress falls on "ue". In IPA it is /kɹəˈtik/.

What is another word for critique?

Close synonyms include review, critical review, review article, criticism, review. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is critique a common word?

critique is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with critique?

4 words rhyme with critique. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.