comment
- a remark, observation, or criticism: a comment about the weather.
- gossip; talk: His frequent absences gave rise to comment.
- a criticism or interpretation, often by implication or suggestion: The play is a comment on modern society.
- 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
Synonyms
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disclose, assert, notice, criticize, expound, clarify, conclude, explain, express, note, mention, say, observe, reflect, remark, affirm, elucidate, gloss, interpose, pronounceExamples from the Web for commented
Contemporary Examples
Movie buffs have commented endlessly on the bell-tower sequence in Vertigo.
You can put mag wheels on a Gremlin,” commented one long time Michigan observer, “but that doesn't make it a Mustang.
And someone named something like, “Vampire Man Randy,” commented on it and wrote, “sex feet.”
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October 31, 2014
McConnell spokesman Don Stewart commented that their “office is an equal employment opportunity employer.”
Many of the individuals Yeshua-Katz spoke to commented on the no-win situation in which they found themselves.
Historical Examples
Langen has commented on it at some length,125 but offers no solution.
The Dramatic Values in PlautusWilton Wallace Blancke
"For humane reasons," Demarest commented, nodding approbation.
Within the LawMarvin Dana
"He's a loyal kid, at that," Burke commented, with a grudging admiration.
Within the LawMarvin Dana
"It's fearfully hard work, of course," he commented, when she had finished.
KMary Roberts Rinehart
"I've always had things pretty hard here," she commented briefly.
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comment
- 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
Word Origin
Word Origin and History for commented
comment
n.
late 14c., from Old French coment "commentary" or directly from Late Latin commentum "comment, interpretation," in classical Latin "invention, fabrication, fiction," neuter past participle of comminisci "to contrive, devise," from com-, intensive prefix (see com-), + base of meminisse "to remember," related to mens (genitive mentis) "mind" (see mind (n.)). The Latin word meaning "something invented" was taken by Isidore and other Christian theologians for "interpretation, annotation." No comment as a stock refusal to answer a journalist's question is first recorded 1950, from Truman's White House press secretary, Charles Ross.
comment
v.
early 15c., from Middle French commenter (15c.), from Latin commentari, from commentum (see comment (n.)). Related: Commented; commenting.