Word Type

Adjective

Adjective

Noun

The word "critical" can be used as adjective, adjective and noun.

Word Relationships

Opposites (Antonyms)

noncritical uncritical uncritical

Coordinate Terms

fair serious stable

Derived Terms

Eurocritical accelerated critical illness acritical antecritical anticritical autocritical bicritical biocritical business-critical cricondentherm crifanac critical Reynolds number critical altitude critical angle critical apparatus critical applied linguistics critical brain hypothesis critical care critical commentary critical condition critical dissonance critical exponent critical function critical hit critical illness critical incident stress management critical load critical mass critical micelle concentration critical opalescence critical path critical period critical philosophy critical point critical point drying critical race theory critical rationalism critical reception critical section critical success factor critical taper critical temperature critical theory critical thinking critical tide level criticality critically criticalness delayed critical ecocritical ethnocritical form-critical gender critical gender-critical gender-critical feminism gender-critical feminist geocritical gynocritical historical-critical historicocritical hypercritical intercritical life-critical metacritical mission-critical multicritical neocritical neurocritical non-critical noncritical on the critical list overcritical paranoiac-critical postcritical precritical prompt critical pseudocritical quasicritical safety-critical self-critical semicritical sociocritical subcritical supercritical supracritical technocritical tetracritical time-critical transcritical tricritical ultracritical uncritical unicritical

Distinct From

complimentary eulogistic laudatory minor praising uncritical unimportant

Etymologically Related To

al

Context

chemistry medicine physics

Related Terms

critic criticism

Related Terms

airflare analysis breakdancing careful chemical reaction condition crisis critic critical point critically criticism criticize critique crucial discerning factor film find fault hop important intensive care liquefy literary move nuclear reaction out of control patient prognosis reagent sarcastic scholarly self sustaining stable temperature turning point unfavorable unstable value vital signs

Similar Terms

acute acute appraising appraising captious captious censorious censorious crucial crucial dangerous deprecative deprecative desperate dire dire discerning discriminative discriminative evaluative faultfinding grave grievous hypercritical hypercritical important indispensable indispensable judicial life threatening life-threatening overcritical sarcastic scathing scholarly searing searing serious severe supercritical supercritical unfavorable unfavourable vituperative vituperative

Synonym Network

crucial dangerous decisive essential important indispensable significant tight

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