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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
critical/ˈkrɪtɪkl/
▶adjective
- 1 expressing adverse or disapproving comments or judgements.
- 2 expressing or involving an analysis of the merits and faults of a work of literature or art.
- 3 (of a situation or problem) at a point of crisis.
■ extremely ill and at risk of death.
■ having a decisive importance in the success or failure of something.
- 4 Mathematics & Physics relating to or denoting a point of transition from one state to another.
- 5 (of a nuclear reactor or fuel) maintaining a self-sustaining chain reaction.
– derivatives
criticality noun,
critically adverb,
criticalness noun.
criticality noun,
critically adverb,
criticalness noun.
'critical' also found in these Oxford entries:
acute
- apparatus
- balance
- bitch
- bitchy
- brickbat
- censorious
- climacteric
- comeback
- comment
- commentary
- critical angle
- critical apparatus
- critical damping
- critical mass
- critical path
- critical point
- critical pressure
- critical state
- critical temperature
- critical theory
- criticism
- criticize
- critique
- crucial
- deconstruction
- derogatory
- detractor
- dig
- easy
- exegesis
- gird
- hypercritical
- ill
- invective
- judgemental
- knock
- mordant
- obelus
- pinch
- pinch-hit
- pinch-run
- pop art
- post-structuralism
- prolegomenon
- review
- satirical
- scale
- scathing
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critical issue
critical issues ... clients' needs not met
Critical juncture
critical point(figuratively)
Critical population mass
Critical practice
critical thinkers as those who are appropriately moved by reason
critical to/of
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critical/crucial
crucial and critical
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get critical
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a critical friend
A is 'a little critical' of B
at the critical stage /at the crucial stage
critical analysis
critical awareness/ critical thinking
critical breakdown point/the economy is screaming
critical darling
critical for vs critical to
critical issue
critical issues ... clients' needs not met
Critical juncture
critical point(figuratively)
Critical population mass
Critical practice
critical thinkers as those who are appropriately moved by reason
critical to/of
Critical what?
critical/crucial
crucial and critical
Favourable and critical comments
get critical
is critical to develop and sustain
Less Critical
made me be critical about myself...
much critical approval was given to a group of English writers
nearly three-quarters of Germans critical of ...
overvaluing of your critical judgement?
tenses in a critical analysis
their commercial and critical failure
more...
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