adjective
Synonyms: critical 1, captious, carping, caviling, cavillous, critic, faultfinding, hypercritical, overcritical
Related Word: chiding, reproachful, reproaching; condemnatory, condemning, denouncing, denunciatory, reprehending; accusatory, culpatory
Contrasted words: acclaiming, acclamatory, extolling, laudatory, lauding, praising; adulatory, complimentary, flattering
Antonyms: eulogistic