PASS JUDGMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pass judgment mean? 

• PASS JUDGMENT (verb)
  The verb PASS JUDGMENT has 1 sense:

1. form a critical opinion of

  Familiarity information: PASS JUDGMENT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PASS JUDGMENT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Form a critical opinion of

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

evaluate; judge; pass judgment

Context example:

We shouldn't pass judgment on other people

Hypernyms (to "pass judgment" is one way to...):

cerebrate; cogitate; think (use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass judgment"):

believe; conceive; consider; think (judge or regard; look upon; judge)

essay; examine; prove; test; try; try out (put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to)

pass (accept or judge as acceptable)

fail (judge unacceptable)

critique; review (appraise critically)

adjudge; declare; hold (declare to be)

disapprove; reject (deem wrong or inappropriate)

assign; attribute (decide as to where something belongs in a scheme)

ascribe; assign; attribute; impute (attribute or credit to)

anticipate; expect (regard something as probable or likely)

calculate; count on; estimate; figure; forecast; reckon (judge to be probable)

grade; order; place; range; rank; rate (assign a rank or rating to)

accept (consider or hold as true)

reject (refuse to accept or acknowledge)

reappraise (appraise anew)

appraise; assess; evaluate; measure; valuate; value (evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of)

prejudge (judge beforehand, especially without sufficient evidence)

choose (see fit or proper to act in a certain way; decide to act in a certain way)

disapprove (consider bad or wrong)

approve (judge to be right or commendable; think well of)

stand (have or maintain a position or stand on an issue)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s something Adjective/Noun
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

 Context examples 

Then by what right did Martin Eden emerge, as he had so recently emerged, from his rag-time and working-class songs, and pass judgment on the world's music?

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

At the best you are a trifle puzzled and amused that this raw boy, crawling up out of the mire of the abyss, should pass judgment upon your class and call it vulgar.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)