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Adjective: critical kritikul- Marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws
"a critical attitude" - At or of a point at which a property or phenomenon suffers an abrupt change especially having enough mass to sustain a chain reaction
"a critical temperature of water is 100 degrees C--its boiling point at standard atmospheric pressure"; "critical mass"; "go critical" - Characterized by careful evaluation and judgment
"a critical reading"; "a critical dissertation"; "a critical analysis of Melville's writings" - Urgently needed; absolutely necessary
"a critical element of the plan"; "critical medical supplies" - vital - Forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis
"a critical point in the campaign"; "the critical test" - decisive - Being in or verging on a state of crisis or emergency
"a critical shortage of food"; "a critical illness"; "an illness at the critical stage" - Of or involving or characteristic of critics or criticism
"critical acclaim"
See also: acute, appraising, captious, censorious, coruscating, crisis, critic, criticality, critically, criticalness, criticism, crucial, dangerous, deprecative, desperate, dire, discerning, discriminative, evaluative, faultfinding, grave, grievous, hypercritical, important, indispensable, judicial, life-threatening, overcritical, sarcastic, scathing, scholarly, searing, serious, severe, supercritical, unfavorable [US], unfavourable [Brit, Cdn], vituperative Antonym: noncritical, uncritical Encyclopedia: Critical |