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adjective
1.
inclined to find fault or to judge with severity, often too readily.
2.
occupied with or skilled in criticism.
3.
involving skillful judgment as to truth, merit, etc.; judicial: a critical analysis.
4.
of or pertaining to critics or criticism: critical essays.
5.
EXPANDproviding textual variants, proposed emendations, etc.: a critical edition of Chaucer.
6.
pertaining to or of the nature of a crisis: a critical shortage of food.
7.
of decisive importance with respect to the outcome; crucial: a critical moment.
8.
of essential importance; indispensable: a critical ingredient.
9.
Medicine/Medical. (of a patient's condition) having unstable and abnormal vital signs and other unfavorable indicators, as loss of appetite, poor mobility, or unconsciousness.
10.
COLLAPSEPhysics.
a.
pertaining to a state, value, or quantity at which one or more properties of a substance or system undergo a change.
b.
(of fissionable material) having enough mass to sustain a chain reaction.
Related forms
crit·i·cal·ly, adverb
crit·i·cal·i·ty, crit·i·cal·ness, noun
an·ti·crit·i·cal, adjective
an·ti·crit·i·cal·ly, adverb
an·ti·crit·i·cal·ness, noun
EXPANDhalf-crit·i·cal, adjective
half-crit·i·cal·ly, adverb
half-crit·i·cal·ness, noun
non·crit·i·cal, adjective
non·crit·i·cal·ly, adverb
non·crit·i·cal·ness, noun
post·crit·i·cal, adjective
pseu·do·crit·i·cal, adjective
pseu·do·crit·i·cal·ly, adverb
qua·si-crit·i·cal, adjective
qua·si-crit·i·cal·ly, adverb
COLLAPSESynonyms
1. captious, censorious, carping, faultfinding, caviling. 3. discriminating, exact, precise.
1. captious, censorious, carping, faultfinding, caviling. 3. discriminating, exact, precise.
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Critically
is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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