critical
Adjective
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also:
- unfavorable, unfavourable - not encouraging or approving or pleasing
- sarcastic - expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds
similar to:- captious, faultfinding - tending to find and call attention to faults
- censorious - harshly critical or expressing censure
- deprecative - given to expressing disapproval
- hypercritical, overcritical - inclined to judge too severely
- searing - severely critical
- scathing, vituperative - marked by harshly abusive criticism
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tells us about: criticality - a critical state; especially the point at which a nuclear reaction is self-sustainingreferred to in:
- chemical science, chemistry - the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions
- natural philosophy, physics - the science of matter and energy and their interactions
similar to: supercritical - (especially of fissionable material) able to sustain a chain reaction in such a manner that the rate of reaction increases -
also:
- discerning - having or revealing keen insight and good judgment
- scholarly - characteristic of scholars or scholarship
similar to:- appraising, evaluative - exercising or involving careful evaluations
- discriminative, judicial - expressing careful judgment
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similar to: indispensable - not to be dispensed with; essentialsame as: vital
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same as: decisive
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tells us about: crisis - an unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty
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