criticaster: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

Dave Monroe against.the.dave at gmail.com
Tue Jul 21 22:28:52 CDT 2015


criticaster
\KRIT-i-kas-ter\
noun

1. an incompetent critic.

Quotes

He could clearly remember the observations of one Viennese
criticaster, as he put it, which were published in the Presse, to the
effect that the actors at the Burgtheater could neither walk nor
speak, or at least that they could not do both at once.

-- Thomas Bernhard, Woodcutters, translated by Suhrkamp Verlag, 1987

Origin

Criticaster entered English in the late 1600s from critic and the
diminutive suffix -aster which means something that imperfectly
resembles or mimics the true thing.

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