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adj
Addicted to censure and scolding; apt to blame or condemn; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: condemnatory, overcritical
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Implying or expressing censure.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: condemning, disapprobatory, disapproving, censorious, condemnatory, damnatory, improbatory, reprehensive, reprehensory
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Tending to engage in or support censorship.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: proscribed
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: censorial
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
harshly critical or expressing censure
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From Latin cēnsōrius (“of or pertaining to a censor; severe”). In sense 3 ("tending to engage in or support censorship"), reanalyzed as censor + -ious.
Across languages
7 source translations are retained for this English entry.
