英语词汇“critical”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	critical
释义	crit·i·cal \ˈkrid.ə̇kəl, -itə̇k-, -ēk-\ adjective Etymology: critic (I) + -al 1. a. : inclined to criticize severely and unfavorably : given to noticing faults and imperfections < cooler and more critical in temper; hard to please — Willa Cather > b. : consisting of, marked by, being, or involving criticism < the critical writings of Swinburne > < a critical biography > < his critical insight > also : of or in the judgment of critics < the book won wide critical praise > < the play was a critical success > c. : exercising or involving careful judgment or judicious evaluation : discriminating, careful, exact < a critical weighing of all the factors leaves no doubt that the countryman labors under real disadvantages > < a cautious critical mind > d. : including variant readings and scholarly emendations < a critical edition > — compare variorum 2. : of, relating to, or being a turning point or specially important juncture: a. : indicating or being the stage of a disease at which an abrupt change for better or worse may be anticipated with reasonable certainty < the critical phase of a fever > b. : relating to, indicating, or being a state in which or a measurement or point at which some quality, property, or phenomenon suffers a finite change or undergoes drastic alteration < the parabola is a critical curve through which a conic section passes from an ellipse into a hyperbola > c. : crucial, decisive < a critical analogy between sound and light > < this will be the critical test in the series > d. : indispensable for the weathering, the solution, or the overcoming of a crisis; specifically : essential for the conduct of war but available only in short supply < critical materials > e. : in or approaching a crisis especially through economic disorders or by virtue of a disaster < a critical area > 3. a. : of doubtful issue : attended by risk or uncertainty < our situation became critical with the early freeze > b. of kinds of organisms (1) : so nearly related as to be distinguished with difficulty < two critical species > (2) : rare and diminishing in numbers < a critical element in the local flora > 4. : of sufficient size to sustain or to be capable of sustaining a chain reaction — used of a mass of fissionable material Synonyms: hypercritical, censorious, faultfinding, carping, captious, caviling: critical may describe a disposition to find and to stress faults < the attitude of Euripides … is so … frankly critical that a recent writer has even gone so far as to maintain that his main object … was to discredit the myths — G.L.Dickinson > Unlike the other words in this list, critical may describe fair, judicious evaluation < the exemplars of … the critical spirit, discriminators between the false and the true — P.E.More > The other words in the list are all close in suggestion and are often interchangeable. hypercritical and censorious indicate a tendency to discover and stress errors and imperfections < exceedingly difficult to please, not … because he was hypercritical and exacting, but because he was indifferent — Arnold Bennett > < “do you mean that you heard a fellow doubt my wife …?” “The world's very censorious, old boy” — W.M.Thackeray > faultfinding, sometimes implying lack of background and discrimination, describes a temperament that is exacting and almost impossible to satisfy. carping and captious may imply perverse ill-natured faultfinding < these criticisms of a book that is a labor of love may seem ungracious or even carping — M.R.Cohen > < after reading a work of such amplitude it seems captious to protest that the motivating forces … are inadequately analyzed — Geoffrey Bruun > caviling suggests frequent petty objections < those caviling critics who snipe from the musty back rooms of libraries — Charles Ramsdell > Synonym: see in addition acute.
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