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critical Definition:
- Critical or Critically may refer to:
| Critical (n.) Qualified to criticise, or pass judgment upon, literary or artistic productions. |
| Critical (n.) Pertaining to criticism or the critic's art |
| Critical (n.) Inclined to make nice distinctions, or to exercise careful judgment and selection |
| Critical (n.) Inclined to criticise or find fault |
| Critical (n.) Characterized by thoroughness and a reference to principles, as becomes a critic |
| Critical (n.) Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis, turning point, or specially important juncture |
| critical mass the minimum mass of fissionable material that can sustain a chain reaction |
| critical mass the minimum amount (of something) required to start or maintain a venture, "the battle for the computer market has now reached critical mass", "there is now a critical mass of successful women to take the lead", "they sold the business because it lacked critical mass" |
| critical appraisal / critical analysis an appraisal based on careful analytical evaluation |
| review critique / critical review / review article an essay or article that gives a critical evaluation (as of a book or play) |
| critical angle the smallest angle of incidence for which light is totally reflected |
| juncture / critical point / crossroads a crisis situation or point in time when a critical decision must be made, "at that juncture he had no idea what to do", "he must be made to realize that the company stands at a critical point" |
| critical marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws, "a critical attitude" |
| critical characterized by careful evaluation and judgment, "a critical reading", "a critical dissertation", "a critical analysis of Melville's writings" |
| 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" |
| 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 idegrees C--its boiling point at standard atmospheric pressure", "critical mass", "go critical" |
critical Synonyme:
| critical 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 rationaliz |
| critical point bench mark cardinal point chief thing climacteric climax clutch convergence of events core cornerstone crisis critical juncture crossroads crucial period crunch crux emergency essence essential essential matter exigency extremity fundamental gist gravamen great point heart high point hinge important thing issue kernel keystone landmark main point main thing material point meat milestone nub pass pinch pith pivot push real issue rub salient point sine qua non strait substance substantive point the bottom line the point turn turning point |