1.  critic(n = noun.person) - a person who is professionally engaged in the analysis and interpretation of works of art;
is a kind of professional, professional person
has particulars: art critic, drama critic, theater critic, literary critic, music critic, newspaper critic, granville-barker, harley granville-barker, allen tate, john orley allen tate, tate
Derived forms adjective critical₇, verb criticize₁, verb criticize₂

2.  critic(n = noun.person) - anyone who expresses a reasoned judgment of something;
is a kind of evaluator, judge
has particulars: appraiser, authenticator, grader, panelist, panellist, reader, referee, reviewer, sampler, taste-tester, taste tester, taster
Derived forms adjective critical₃, adjective critical₇, verb criticize₁, verb criticize₂

3.  critic(n = noun.person) - someone who frequently finds fault or makes harsh and unfair judgments;
is a kind of disagreeable person, unpleasant person
has particulars: carper, niggler, nitpicker, roaster
Derived forms adjective critical₁, adjective critical₇, verb criticize₁, verb criticize₂

1.  One skilled in judging of the merits of literary or artistic works; a connoisseur; an adept; hence, one who examines literary or artistic works, etc., and passes judgment upon them; a reviewer. [1913 Webster]
"The opininon of the most skillful critics was, that nothing finer [than Goldsmith's “Traveler”] had appeared in verse since the fourth book of the “Dunciad.”" [1913 Webster]

2.  One who passes a rigorous or captious judgment; one who censures or finds fault; a harsh examiner or judge; a caviler; a carper. [1913 Webster]
"When an author has many beauties consistent with virtue, piety, and truth, let not little critics exalt themselves, and shower down their ill nature." [1913 Webster]
"You know who the critics are? the men who have failed in literature and art." [1913 Webster]

3.  The art of criticism. Locke. [1913 Webster]

4.  An act of criticism; a critique. [1913 Webster]
"And make each day a critic on the last." [1913 Webster]

   Of or pertaining to critics or criticism; critical. Pope. [1913 Webster]

   To criticise; to play the critic. [1913 Webster]
"Nay, if you begin to critic once, we shall never have done." [1913 Webster]

critic, n.
1 a person who censures.
2 a person who reviews or judges the merits of literary, artistic, or musical works etc., esp. regularly or professionally.
3 a person engaged in textual criticism.

Etymology:
L criticus f. Gk kritikos f. krites judge f. krino judge, decide

N  dissertation, treatise, essay, thesis, theme, monograph, tract, tractate, tractation, discourse, memoir, disquisition, lecture, sermon, homily, pandect, excursus, commentary, review, critique, criticism, article, leader, leading article, editorial, running commentary, investigation, study, discussion, exposition, commentator, critic, essayist, pamphleteer, discursive, discoursive, disquisitionary, expository.

N  taste, good taste, refined taste, cultivated taste, delicacy, refinement, fine feeling, gust, gusto, tact, finesse, nicety, to prepon, polish, elegance, grace, judgment, discernment, dilettantism, dilettanteism, virtu, fine art, culture, cultivation, aesthetics, man of taste, connoisseur, judge, critic, conoscente, virtuoso, amateur, dilettante, Aristarchus, Corinthian, arbiter elegantiarum, stagirite, euphemist, caviare to the general, in good taste, cute, tasteful, tasty, unaffected, pure, chaste, classical, attic, cultivated, refined, dainty, esthetic, aesthetic, artistic, elegant, euphemistic, to one's taste, to one's mind, after one's fancy, comme il faut, tire a quatre epingles, elegantly, nihil tetigit quod non ornavit, chacun a son gout, oculi pictura tenentur aures cantibus, taste, flavor, gust, gusto, savor, gout, relish, sapor, sapidity, twang, smack, smatch, aftertaste, tang, tasting, degustation, gustation, palate, tongue, tooth, stomach, sapid, saporific, gustable, gustatory, gustful, strong, gamy, palatable.

N  detractor, reprover, censor, censurer, cynic, critic, caviler, carper, word-catcher, frondeur, barracker, defamer, backbiter, slanderer, Sir Benjamin Backbite, lampooner, satirist, traducer, libeler, calumniator, dawplucker, Thersites, Zoilus, good-natured friend, reviler, vituperator, castigator, shrew, muckraker, disapprover, laudator temporis acti, black-mouthed, abusive.

N  judgment, result, conclusion, upshot, deduction, inference, ergotism, illation, corollary, porism, moral, estimation, valuation, appreciation, judication, dijudication, adjudication, arbitrament, arbitrement, arbitration, assessment, ponderation, valorization, award, estimate, review, criticism, critique, notice, report, decision, determination, judgment, finding, verdict, sentence, decree, findings of fact, findings of law, res judicata, plebiscite, voice, casting vote, vote, opinion, good judgment, judge, umpire, arbiter, arbitrator, asessor, referee, censor, reviewer, critic, connoisseur, commentator, inspector, inspecting officer, twenty-twenty hindsight, armchair general, monday morning quarterback, judging, judicious, determinate, conclusive, on the whole, all things considered, a Daniel come to judgment, and stand a critic, hated yet caress'd, it is much easier to be critical than to be correc, la critique est aisee et l'art est difficile, nothing if not critical, O most lame and impotent conclusion.

art critic, drama critic, literary critic, music critic, newspaper critic, theater critic