critical

Meaning

Adj

1. Inclined to find fault or criticize.
2. Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis or turning point.
3. Extremely important.
4. Relating to criticism or careful analysis, such as literary or film criticism.
5. 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.
6. (broadly) In such a condition.
7. Likely to go out of control if disturbed, that is, opposite of stable.
8. Of the point (in temperature, reagent concentration etc.) where a nuclear or chemical reaction becomes self-sustaining.
9. Of a temperature that is equal to the temperature of the critical point of a substance, i.e. the temperature above which the substance cannot be liquefied.
10. Needing great discrimination to be correctly classified; easily confused.

Noun

1. A critical value, factor, etc.
2. In breakdancing, a kind of airflare move in which the dancer hops from one hand to the other.

Synonyms

crucial

serious

grave

🪦

dangerous

decisive

censorious

vital

severe

crisis

important

urgent

‼️

judgmental

fault-finding

pressing

extreme

climactic

exigent

emergency

unreliable

uncertain

close

ultimate

significant

risky

tight

watch out

marginal

limping

moribund

climacteric

faultfinding

judicial

narrow

acute

almost dead

key

🔑

fateful

fatal

crossover

fastidious

criticality

essential

critic

intense

integral

in short supply

emergent

carping

boundary

inherent

Translations

critique

‼️

crítico

‼️

crític

‼️

kritisch

‼️

crítico

‼️

κρίσιμος

kritiek

‼️

critico

‼️

κριτικός

kritisch

‼️

decisivo

entscheidend

bedenklich

mäkelig

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkɹɪt.ɪ.kəl/

Etymology

From Latin criticus + -al, from Ancient Greek κριτικός (kritikós, “of or for judging, able to discern”), from
κρίνω (krínō, “I separate, judge”); also the root of crisis.

Sentences

Dumbutshena's decisions were often highly critical of President Robert Mugabe and his government .