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critical - marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws; "a critical attitude" |
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uncritical not critical; not tending to find or call attention to errors; "a devoted and almost uncritical admirer"
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sarcastic expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds
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unfavorable,
unfavourable (of winds or weather) tending to hinder or oppose; "unfavorable winds"
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captious,
faultfinding tending to find and call attention to faults; "a captious pedant"; "an excessively demanding and faultfinding tutor"
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censorious harshly critical or expressing censure; "was censorious of petty failings"
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deprecative given to expressing disapproval
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hypercritical,
overcritical inclined to judge too severely; "hypercritical of colloquial speech"; "the overcritical teacher can discourage originality"
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searing severely critical
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scathing,
vituperative marked by harshly abusive criticism; "his scathing remarks about silly lady novelists"; "her vituperative railing"
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critical - 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" |
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noncritical,
noncrucial not in a state of crisis or emergency
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crucial,
important of extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis; "a crucial moment in his career"; "a crucial election"; "a crucial issue for women"
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crisis a crucial stage or turning point in the course of something; "after the crisis the patient either dies or gets better"
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acute having or experiencing a rapid onset and short but severe course; "acute appendicitis"; "the acute phase of the illness"; "acute patients"
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dangerous,
grave,
grievous,
life-threatening,
serious,
severe causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm; "a dangerous operation"; "a grave situation"; "a grave illness"; "grievous bodily harm"; "a serious wound"; "a serious turn of events"; "a severe case of pneumonia"; "a life-threatening disease"
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desperate,
dire showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously undertaken in desperation as a last resort; "made a last desperate attempt to reach the climber"; "the desperate gallantry of our naval task forces marked the turning point in the Pacific war"- G.C.Marshall; "they took heroic measures to save his life"
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critical - characterized by careful evaluation and judgment; "a critical reading"; "a critical dissertation"; "a critical analysis of Melville's writings" |
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noncritical,
uncritical not in a state of crisis or emergency
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discerning having or revealing keen insight and good judgment; "a discerning critic"; "a discerning reader"
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scholarly characteristic of scholars or scholarship; "scholarly pursuits"; "a scholarly treatise"; "a scholarly attitude"
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appraising
evaluative
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discriminative,
judicial expressing careful judgment; "discriminative censure"; "a biography ...appreciative and yet judicial in purpose"-Tyler Dennett
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critical - 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" |
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noncritical not in a state of crisis or emergency
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criticality a critical state; especially the point at which a nuclear reaction is self-sustaining
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chemical science,
chemistry the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions
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natural philosophy,
physics the science of matter and energy and their interactions; "his favorite subject was physics"
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supercritical (especially of fissionable material) able to sustain a chain reaction in such a manner that the rate of reaction increases
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critical - forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis; "a critical point in the campaign"; "the critical test" |
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decisive |
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crucial,
important of extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis; "a crucial moment in his career"; "a crucial election"; "a crucial issue for women"
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critical - of or involving or characteristic of critics or criticism; "critical acclaim" |
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critical - urgently needed; absolutely necessary; "a critical element of the plan"; "critical medical supplies"; "vital for a healthy society"; "of vital interest" |
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vital |
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indispensable unavoidable; "the routine but indispensable ceremonies of state"
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