review

review

noun

Definition of REVIEW

1

a usually critical look at a past event <a review of yesterday's football game gave us a lot of good ideas on how to improve for the next one>

Synonyms reappraisal, reconsideration, reexamination, retrospect, retrospection

Related Words recap, recapitulation, rehash

Near Antonyms preview

2

a close look at or over someone or something in order to judge condition <took the car to her mechanic for a complete mechanical review before she decided to sell it>

Synonyms audit, check, checkup, examination, going-over, look-see, review, scan, scrutiny, survey, view

Related Words analysis, assay, close-up, deconstruction, dissection; exploration, investigation, probe, research, study; inquisition, interrogation; once-over, perusal; recheck, reinspection, resurvey; observation, surveillance, watch; checkout, test-drive, trial run

3

a publication that appears at regular intervals <had his poetry published in a literary review>

Synonyms book, bulletin, diurnal, gazette, mag, magazine, newspaper, organ, paper, periodical, rag, review, serial, zine

Related Words annual, bimonthly, biweekly, daily, monthly, quarterly, semimonthly, semiweekly, triweekly, weekly, yearbook; digest, little magazine; fanzine; pictorial, slick; broadside, edition, extra, sheet, supplement, tab, tabloid; newsletter, newsmagazine, newsweekly

4

an essay evaluating or analyzing something <a harsh movie review of an expected summer blockbuster>

Synonyms critique, examen, notice, review

Related Words column, commentary, editorial, punditry; appraisal, assessment, evaluation; analysis, examination, opinion, outline, study, survey

5

the act, process, or result of making different <the company decided that the 100-year-old office building could use a review>

Synonyms alteration, difference, modification, redoing, refashioning, remaking, remodeling, revamping, review, revise, revision, reworking, variation

Related Words amendment, correction, rectification, reform; conversion, deformation, distortion, metamorphosis, mutation, transfiguration, transformation; fluctuation, oscillation, shift; displacement, replacement, substitution; adjustment, modulation, regulation, tweak; redesign, redo

Antonyms fixation, stabilization