Criterion. Standard, test, rule, touchstone, measure, canon, proof.
Ant. Eye, glance; intention, conjecture.
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Critic. Judge, censor, reviewer, connoisseur; caviller, carper; arbiter, savant.
Ant. Artist, author, writer, performer, maker, poet, composer.
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Critical. Accurate, nice, exact; decisive, crucial, determining, important; dangerous, hazardous, imminent, momentous, dubious, precarious.
Ant. Inexact, loose, undiscriminating; unimportant, inconclusive; safe, sure, settled, decided, retrieved, redressed.
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Criticism. Censure, stricture, animadversion, review, critique.
Ant. Approbation, praise, approval.
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Criticize. Examine, estimate, judge, discuss, analyze, anatomize, scan, animadvert.
Ant. Survey, overlook, slur, skim, slight, neglect.
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Crooked. Bent, curved, bowed; distorted, twisted, wry, askew, deformed, disfigured; perverse, contumacious, capricious; dishonest, unfair, unscrupulous, knavish, deceitful, tricky.
Ant. Straight, linear, upright, direct, honest, straightforward.
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Cross. Fretful, petulant, peevish, snappish, touchy, morose, ill-natured, sullen, snarling, cynical, sour, out of humor, captious, crabbed, sulky.
Ant. Amiable, genial, good-tempered, good-natured, blithesome, charming, winsome, attractive, benign.
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Crowd. Throng, multitude, concourse, press, horde, herd, host, rabble, mob, populace.
Ant. Cream, еlite, bevy, constellation, galaxy; solitude, solitariness.
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Crown, n. Diadem, coronet, garland, chaplet, wreath, laurel, bays; reward, honor, distinction, dignity; summit, crest, top, head, brow, apex.
Ant. Base, bottom, floor, foot, pedestal, foundation, sole; infamy, shame.
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Crown, v. Complete, consummate, conclude, seal, achieve, accomplish.
Ant. Mar, spoil, frustrate, fail.
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Crucial. Severe, trying, searching, decisive, critical, momentous, strategic.
Ant. Superficial, indifferent, mild, lenient, lax, unimportant.
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Crude. Raw, immature, unripe; coarse, unrefined; undigested, unconsidered, unpolished, uncouth, awkward.
Ant. Mature; refined, sensitive; well-considered, finished, classical, highly wrought, elaborate.
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Cruel. Inhuman, merciless, unfeeling, dire, ruthless, pitiless, relentless, savage, brutal, ferocious, blood-thirsty, sanguinary; severe, sharp, bitter, hard.
Ant. Gentle, mild, merciful, humane, forbearing, generous.
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Crush. Pound, crumble, demolish, overpower, squeeze, compress, bruise, shatter, raze, pulverize.
Ant. Consolidate, compact, amalgamate, solidify, stabilitate.
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Culmination. Zenith, success, consummation, acme, completion, apex.
Ant. Failure, downfall, defeat, descent, decline.
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Culpable. Blameworthy, blamable, censurable, reprehensible, faulty, wrong.
Ant. Innocent, blameless, laudable, praiseworthy.
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Culprit. Criminal, delinquent, felon, malefactor, offender.
Ant. Hero, example, pattern, model, saint, upright man.