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marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws; "a critical attitude"

characterized by careful evaluation and judgment; "a critical reading"; "a critical dissertation"; "a critical analysis of Melville's writings"

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"

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 is 100 degrees C--its boiling point at standard atmospheric pressure"; "critical mass".

marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws; "a critical attitude"

characterized by careful evaluation and judgment; "a critical reading"; "a critical dissertation"; "a critical analysis of Melville's writings"

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"

Qualified to criticise, or pass judgment upon, literary or artistic productions.

Pertaining to criticism or the critic's art; of the nature of a criticism; accurate; as, critical knowledge; a critical dissertation.

Inclined to make nice distinctions, or to exercise careful judgment and selection; exact; nicely judicious.

Inclined to criticise or find fault; fastidious; captious; censorious; exacting.

Characterized by thoroughness and a reference to principles, as becomes a critic; as, a critical analysis of a subject.

Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis, turning point, or specially important juncture; important as regards consequences; hence, of doubtful issue; attended with risk; dangerous; as, the critical stage of a fever; a critical situation.

Inclined to find fault; nicely exact; skilled in careful judgment, particularly of literary works, etc.; pertaining to the turning point of a disease; decisive; crucial.

Critically.

Critically.

Relating to criticism: skilled in judging literary and other productions: discriminating: captious: decisive.

CRITICALNESS.

Critically.

Of or pertaining to a critic or criticism; judicious; fastidious; thorough; exact; fault finding.

Of or preliminary to a crisis; perlious.

Relating in any way to a crisis of any kind.

Pertaining to a crisis; precarious.

Relating to criticism; discriminating; captious; indicating a crisis; decisive; important.

Relating to criticism; skilled in criticism; discriminating; nicely judicious; inclined to judge with severity; indicating a crisis; decisive; involving risk.

Highly important; momentous-from crisis; nicely exact; prone to judge severely the productions of others; fault-finding.

Belonging to a crisis.

Of the nature of a crisis.

Of, or pertaining to, a crisis, or to a time at which a crisis occurs or is to be expected.

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Exact, nicely judicious, accurate; relating to criticism; captious, inclined to find fault; comprising the time at which a great event is determined.