critically analyze

verb phrase

  1. to examine something carefully and in detail, judging its strengths, weaknesses, evidence, and hidden assumptions rather than accepting it at face value or merely describing it

    B2

    transitive: critically analyze somethingformal; academic

    • "In this class, students critically analyze short news stories."B1
    • "In your essay, critically analyze the author’s main argument and supporting evidence."B2
    • "Her essay critically analyzes the assumptions behind the economic model rather than merely summarizing it."C1

Collocations

critically analyze datacritically analyze a textcritically analyze an argumentcritically analyze evidence

Word family

analyzeanalysiscriticalcriticallyanalytical