Critical is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CRITICAL in dictionary:

NOUN:
• 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.
ADJECTIVE:
• given to criticism
• expressing adverse or disapproving comments or judgements
• expressing or involving an analysis of the merits and faults of a work of literature, music, or art
• (of a text) incorporating a detailed and scholarly analysis and commentary
• involving the objective analysis and evaluation of an issue in order to form a judgement
• (of a situation or problem) having the potential to become disastrous; at a point of crisis
• extremely ill and at risk of death
• having a decisive or crucial importance in the success, failure, or existence of something
• relating to or denoting a point of transition from one state to another
• (of a nuclear reactor or fuel) maintaining a self-sustaining chain reaction
• very important or dangerous
• marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws
• at or of a point at which a property or phenomenon suffers an abrupt change especially having enough mass to sustain a chain reaction
• characterized by careful evaluation and judgment
• urgently needed; absolutely necessary
• forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis
• being in or verging on a state of crisis or emergency
• of or involving or characteristic of critics or criticism
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• of, relating to, or being a turning point or specially important juncture; as; relating to or being the stage of a disease at which an abrupt change for better or worse may be expected; being or relating to an illness or condition involving danger of death; relating to or being a state in which or a measurement or point at which some quality, property, or phenomenon suffers a definite change; crucial, decisive; indispensable, vital; being in or approaching a state of crisis

Words related to CRITICAL

critically17 criticalness16

Words that contain CRITICAL

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How to use CRITICAL in a sentence

• In an unusually soft mood she replied to his remarks and stole little critical glances up at him.
• Altogether they caused us great loss, and towards evening things began to look critical.
• His writing is heartily sympathetic to the common soldier and war-time refugees, but quite critical to those in power.
• One great beauty of diction exists only for those who have some degree of scholarship or critical skill.
• Nicol Brinn had a rarely critical taste in friendship, none but a fortunate few had seen the long room with its two large windows overlooking Piccadilly.
• But there are critical seasons about whose seriousness there can be no doubt.
• He saw Soviet government as the need of the critical moment, rather than as the permanent, distinctive type of Russian Social democracy as the critics of Kerensky have alleged.
• But what was he to do with the injured man? That he was in a critical condition, he was well aware, but how bad he did not know.
• Under this new government the relations of England and Scotland soon became critical.
• But he let the time for effective action slip, and was only goaded into doing anything when the fugitives from the march impressed him with the critical state of affairs.
• After being acquitted by a court of inquiry, the Admiral proceeded, his objective point now being changed from Port Arthur to Vladivostock, the next most critical point.
• In the former, and here perhaps only, do we find him putting his shoulder to the work of critical advocacy and sympathy with an absolutely whole heart.
• The Southern races will always demand what is less austere than the North, the West will always be more critical than the East.
• With notes critical and explanatory, and other illustrations, by T.
• Wagner somewhere says that the greatest joy possible to man is the putting forth of creative activity so spontaneously that the critical faculty is, for the time being, asleep.
• We who have witnessed widespread atrocities are subjected to a critical process as cold as if we were advancing a new program of social reform.
• He had been known to so many, that if he had not set sail in that critical moment, it had been impossible for him to escape.
• The lad had grown as hot as I cold, as keenly excited as I critical.
• But, as I have said, I reserve my right of critical examination.
• In this way Canadian pluck and strategy won a famous victory which saved the province of Lower Canada at a most critical moment of the war.
• The state of France, however, is certainly extremely critical, and we ought not to be surprised at the rising of the people at any moment.
• It is biographical rather than critical, and not more than about a score of pages have been reproduced in it from the earlier book.
• At one time he and his company were in a very critical situation.
• It was really the most critical point in our experience.
• The effort to separate them from the natural functions which they evidently expressed could not succeed while any critical acumen or independence subsisted in the believer.
• This is truly a critical moment in the existence of Africanderdom all over South Africa.

Similar words containing CRITIC without suffix al

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