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critical | of or involving or characteristic of critics or criticism | |
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critical, decisive | forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis | |
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critical | being in or verging on a state of crisis or emergency | |
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critical | marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws | |
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critical | [in physics] at or of a point at which a property or phenomenon suffers an abrupt change especially having enough mass to sustain a chain reaction | |
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vital, critical | urgently needed; absolutely necessary | |
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fretful, querulous, whiney, whiny, huffy, bitchy, critical, touchy, cantankerous, irritable, peevish, testy, lamenting, plaintive, grumbling, uptight, bemoaning, whining | habitually complaining | |
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critical | characterized by careful evaluation and judgment |