CRITICAL REVIEW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does critical review mean? 

• CRITICAL REVIEW (noun)
  The noun CRITICAL REVIEW has 1 sense:

1. an essay or article that gives a critical evaluation (as of a book or play)

  Familiarity information: CRITICAL REVIEW used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRITICAL REVIEW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An essay or article that gives a critical evaluation (as of a book or play)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

critical review; critique; review; review article

Hypernyms ("critical review" is a kind of...):

criticism; literary criticism (a written evaluation of a work of literature)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "critical review"):

book review (a critical review of a book (usually a recently published book))

notice (a short critical review)

rave (an extravagantly enthusiastic review)