Critical

Adjective

 * 1) Inclined to find fault or criticize; fastidious; captious; censorious; exacting.
 * A good teacher is fair but critical.
 * 1) Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis or turning point.
 * This is a critical moment.
 * 1) Extremely important.
 * It's critical that you deliver this on time.
 * 1) Relating to criticism or careful analysis, such as literary or film criticism.
 * The movie was a critical success, but bombed at the box-office.
 * 1)  Of a patient condition involving unstable vital signs and a prognosis that predicts the condition could worsen; or, a patient condition that requires urgent treatment in an intensive care or critical care medical facility.
 * The patient's condition is critical.
 * 1) Likely to go out of control if disturbed, that is, opposite of stable.
 * The political situation was so critical that the government declared the state of siege.
 * 1) Of the point (in temperature, reagent concentration etc.) where a nuclear or chemical reaction becomes self-sustaining.
 * The reaction was about to become critical.

Derived terms

 * criticality
 * critically
 * criticalness
 * critical angle


 * critical mass
 * critical point
 * critical thinking

Related terms

 * critic
 * criticism

Adverbs for Critical
facetiously; astutely; generously; penetratingly; ingeniously; unsparingly; exactingly; fastidiously; crabbedly; bitterly; vigorously; judiciously; aggressively; ignorantly; thoughtfully; clumsily; gracelessly; creatively; viciously; haughtily; persistently; constructively; alertly; fearlessly; courageously; impartially; gravely; captiously; mercilessly, malevolently; conscientiously; keenly; authoritatively; tolerantly; ably; caustically; disagreeably; obnoxiously; unpleasantly.

Thesaurus
Herculean, abstruse, accurate, acute, alarming, allegorizing, annotative, appreciative, arduous, attentive, bad, basic, belittling, brutal, captious, carping, caviling, censorious, charged, choicy, choosy, clamorous, clarifying, climacteric, close, commentative, commentatorial, compelling, complex, conclusive, conscientious, consequential, correct, critic, crucial, crying, cynical, dangerous, dangersome, decisive, delicate, demanding, demeaning, demonstrative, demythologizing, deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciating, depreciative, depreciatory, desperate, detailed, determinative, differential, difficile, difficult, dire, discerning, discoursive, discriminate, discriminating, discriminative, disparaging, disquisitional, dissertational, distinctive, distinguishing, editorial, elucidative, emergent, enlightening, essayistic, essential, euhemeristic, exact, exacting, exegetic, exemplificative, exigent, explaining, explanatory, explicative, explicatory, explosive, expositive, expositorial, expository, exquisite, fastidious, faultfinding, fine, finical, finicking, finicky, formidable, fraught with danger, fussy, glossarial, grave, hairsplitting, hairy, hard, hard-earned, hard-fought, high-pressure, high-priority, humbling, hypercritical, illuminating, illuminative, illustrative, imperative, imperious, important, insistent, instant, intricate, jawbreaking, jeopardous, judgemental, judgmental, judicative, judicial, judiciary, judicious, juridic, juristic, kairotic, key, knotted, knotty, laborious, loaded, lowering, mean, menacing, meticulous, minute, momentous, monographic, nagging, narrow, nice, niggling, no picnic, not easy, on slippery ground, on thin ice, operose, overcritical, parlous, particular, penetrating, perfectionistic, periculous, perilous, pettifogging, picky, pivotal, precarious, precise, precisianistic, precisionistic, pregnant, pressing, priggish, prudish, punctilious, punctual, puristic, puritanic, quibbling, rationalistic, rationalizing, refined, religious, rigid, rigorous, rough, rugged, scholiastic, scrupulous, scrutinizing, selective, sensitive, serious, set with thorns, severe, significant, slippery, slippy, spiny, steep, strenuous, strict, subtle, tactful, thorny, threatening, ticklish, toilsome, touch-and-go, touchy, tough, trichoschistic, tricky, ugly, ultracritical, uncertain, uphill, urgent, vital, weighty, wicked

Etymology
From the suffix -al: and criticus: <  κριτικός: < κρίνω:, also the root of crisis).

Translations

 * Bulgarian: придиращ
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: kriittinen, kritisoiva, arvosteleva
 * German:


 * Hebrew: ביקורתי (biqorty)
 * Hungarian: bíráló,
 * Korean: 비판적
 * Russian: придирчивый


 * Bulgarian: преломен
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:


 * Hungarian:, válságos
 * Russian: критический, переломный


 * Bulgarian: много важен,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: äärimmäisen tärkeä


 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: критический, решительный


 * Bulgarian: критичен
 * Dutch:


 * Finnish: arvostelu-
 * Russian: критический


 * Dutch:


 * Finnish:


 * Bulgarian: критичен
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:


 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian: