comment
a remark, observation, or criticism: a comment about the weather.
a criticism or interpretation, often by implication or suggestion: The play is a comment on modern society.
Digital Technology. a user response to published content on the internet, written in a designated “Comments” section, often below the published content: There were many online comments criticizing the author.
a note in explanation, expansion, or criticism of a passage in a book, article, or the like; annotation.
explanatory or critical matter added to a text.
Also called rheme. Linguistics. the part of a sentence that communicates new information about the topic.: Compare topic (def. 4).
to make remarks, observations, or criticisms: He refused to comment on the decision of the court.
to write explanatory or critical notes upon a text.
to make comments or remarks on; furnish with comments; annotate.
Origin of comment
1synonym study For comment
Other words for comment
Other words from comment
- com·ment·a·ble, adjective
- com·ment·er, noun
- un·com·ment·ed, adjective
- un·com·ment·ing, adjective
- un·der·com·ment, noun, verb
Words that may be confused with comment
- comment , commentate
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How to use comment in a sentence
Her new comments will only add to ongoing speculation that the Yorks plan, one day, to remarry.
Comments like that are designed to stoke the fires of fan-passion—and it works beautifully.
All Your Internet Boyfriends Are Taken: Gosling, Cumberbatch, and now Joseph Gordon-Levitt | Melissa Leon | January 3, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTLimbaugh makes comments like this because his right-wing fans require a non–stop diet of race-baiting red meat.
The most irresponsible comments however would have to be those of Donald Trump, since he should know better.
But these comments, made Wednesday night in New York City, were particularly unbound.
Also, some ominous comments on what armies spend and what Governments scrimp:—that is ammunition.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian HamiltonMr. Pontellier scanned the names of his wife's callers, reading some of them aloud, with comments as he read.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories | Kate ChopinThere is also very much repetition—the same matter in new dress, is reintroduced for sake of additional comments or applications.
Assimilative Memory | Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)I have very little time for any thing outside my work, he said, running on with his mental comments.
Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline | Jennie M. Drinkwater“But you know you like to be robbed for a good cause,” chuckled Amy, who chanced to hear these comments.
The Campfire Girls of Roselawn | Margaret Penrose
British Dictionary definitions for comment
/ (ˈkɒmɛnt) /
a remark, criticism, or observation
talk or gossip
a note explaining or criticizing a passage in a text
explanatory or critical matter added to a text
(when intr, often foll by on; when tr, takes a clause as object) to remark or express an opinion
(intr) to write notes explaining or criticizing a text
Origin of comment
1Derived forms of comment
- commenter, noun
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