CRITICAL

Meaning of CRITICAL in English

adj. Function: adjective

1 exhibiting the spirit of one who looks for and points out faults and defects FF1C; constant critical comments about her attire FF1E;

Synonyms: captious, carping, caviling, cavillous, censorious, critic, faultfinding, hypercritical, overcritical

Related Words: discerning, discriminating, penetrating; finicky, fussy, particular; belittling, demeaning, disparaging, humbling, lowering

Contrasted Words: cursory, shallow, superficial; encouraging, flattering, praising

Antonyms: uncritical

Synonyms: ACUTE 6, climacteric, crucial, desperate, dire

Related Words: conclusive, decisive, determinative; consequential, important, momentous, significant, weighty

Merriam Webster. Collegiate thesaurus English dictionary. Английский энциклопедический толковый словарь тезауруса. 2012

CRITICAL — [c mediumvioletred] (as used in expressions) critical mass critical point critical theory critical care unit
Английский словарь Британика
CRITICAL — ˈkrid.ə̇kəl, -itə̇k-, -ēk- adjective Etymology: critic (I) + -al 1. a. : inclined to criticize severely and unfavorably : given …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
CRITICAL — (n.) Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis, turning point, or specially important juncture; important as regards consequences; hence, of doubtful …
Английский словарь Webster
CRITICAL — (n.) Pertaining to criticism or the critic's art; of the nature of a criticism; accurate; as, critical knowledge; a critical …
Английский словарь Webster
CRITICAL — ( n. ) Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis, turning point, or specially important juncture; important as regards consequences; hence, …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
CRITICAL — ( n. ) Pertaining to criticism or the critic's art; of the nature of a criticism; accurate; as, critical knowledge; …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
CRITICAL — — critically , adv. — criticality, criticalness , n. /krit"i keuhl/ , adj. 1. inclined to find fault or to …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
CRITICAL — adjective Date: 1547 1. a. : of, relating to, or being a turning point or specially important juncture a critical …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
CRITICAL — noun inclined to criticise or find fault; fastidious; captious; censorious; exacting. 2. critical ·noun qualified to criticise, or pass judgment …
Webster English vocab
CRITICAL — [crit.i.cal] adj (1547) 1 a: of, relating to, or being a turning point or specially important juncture "~ phase": as …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
CRITICAL — critical BrE AmE ˈkrɪt ɪk ə l AmE \ ˈkrɪt̬- ▷ critical|ly ‿i ▶ ˌ critical ˈ mass BrE AmE
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
CRITICAL — / ˈkrɪtɪkl; NAmE / adjective EXPRESSING DISAPPROVAL 1. critical (of sb/sth) expressing disapproval of sb/sth and saying what you think …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
CRITICAL — crit ‧ i ‧ cal S3 W2 /ˈkrɪtɪk ə l/ BrE AmE adjective [ Word Family: noun : ↑ critic …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
CRITICAL — adj. 1 a making or involving adverse or censorious comments or judgements. b expressing or involving criticism. 2 skilful at …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
CRITICAL — adj. 1 a making or involving adverse or censorious comments or judgements. b expressing or involving criticism. 2 skilful at …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
CRITICAL — adj.1 a making or involving adverse or censorious comments or judgements. b expressing or involving criticism. 2 skilful at or …
Oxford English vocab
CRITICAL — Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. A critical time, factor, or situation …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
CRITICAL
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
CRITICAL — [adjective] - of the greatest importance to the way things might happen; dangerous or uncertainThe President's support is critical (to …
Cambridge English vocab
CRITICAL — adj. critical mass critical point critical theory critical care unit
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
CRITICAL — adj. 25B6; adjective a highly critical report : CENSORIOUS, condemnatory, condemning, denunciatory, disparaging, disapproving, scathing, fault-finding, judgemental, negative, unfavourable; informal …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
CRITICAL — adj. 1 carping, fault-finding, censorious, disparaging, depreciatory or depreciative, depreciating, deprecatory or deprecative, deprecating, judgemental The article was highly critical …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
CRITICAL — adjective BAD : The article is highly critical on the government's refugee policy. GOOD : The article is highly critical …
Longman Common Errors English vocabulary
CRITICAL — прил. 1) разборчивый, требовательный, критический Syn : censorious, fault-finding 2) занимающийся критикой, относящийся к критике Moliere is only critical by …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
CRITICAL — critical.ogg ʹkrıtık(ə)l a 1. критический critical analysis examination - критический анализ осмотр 2. 1> решающий, переломный; критический critical moment - …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
CRITICAL — 1) критический, решающий 2) критичный 3) ответственный, важный, крайне необходимый 4) переходный • - diametrically critical - directly critical - feebly critical
Англо-Русский научно-технический словарь
CRITICAL — a 1. критический critical analysis examination - критический анализ осмотр 2. 1> решающий, переломный; критический critical moment - решающий /переломный/ …
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
CRITICAL — прил. 1) разборчивый, требовательный, критический; неодобрительный Syn: censorious , fault-finding 2) занимающийся критикой, относящийся к критике Moliere is only critical …
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
CRITICAL — прил. 1) разборчивый, требовательный, критический; неодобрительный Syn: censorious, fault-finding 2) занимающийся критикой, относящийся к критике Moliere is only critical by accident. — Мольер занимался критикой …
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
CRITICAL — прил. критический, решающий, переломный - critical activity - critical goal - critical item - critical level - critical mass - critical material - critical path analysis - critical path …
Англо-Русский словарь по экономике
CRITICAL — прил. 1) разборчивый, требовательный, критический Syn : censorious, fault-finding 2) занимающийся критикой, относящийся к критике Moliere is only critical by …
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
CRITICAL — (crisis) critic; (censorious) criticaci
English interlingue dictionary
CRITICAL — makatalagmanon
English-Visayan vocabulary
CRITICAL — adjective Date: 1547 1. of, relating to, or being a turning point or specially important juncture , relating to or …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
CRITICAL — (n.) Characterized by thoroughness and a reference to principles, as becomes a critic; as, a critical analysis of a subject.
Английский словарь Webster
CRITICAL — (n.) Inclined to criticise or find fault; fastidious; captious; censorious; exacting.
Английский словарь Webster
CRITICAL — (n.) Inclined to make nice distinctions, or to exercise careful judgment and selection; exact; nicely judicious.
Английский словарь Webster
CRITICAL — (n.) Qualified to criticise, or pass judgment upon, literary or artistic productions.
Английский словарь Webster
CRITICAL — ( n. ) Qualified to criticise, or pass judgment upon, literary or artistic productions.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
CRITICAL — ( n. ) Inclined to make nice distinctions, or to exercise careful judgment and selection; exact; nicely judicious.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
CRITICAL — ( n. ) Inclined to criticise or find fault; fastidious; captious; censorious; exacting.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
CRITICAL — ( n. ) Characterized by thoroughness and a reference to principles, as becomes a critic; as, a critical analysis of …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
CRITICAL — adj. judgmental; important, crucial
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
CRITICAL — adj. critical angle critical mass critical point critical region critical value form critical New Critical self critical
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
CRITICAL — adj. Pronunciation: ' kri-ti-k ə l Function: adjective Date: 1547 1 a : of, relating to, or being a turning …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
CRITICAL — ■ adjective 1》 expressing adverse or disapproving comments or judgements. 2》 expressing or involving an analysis of the merits and …
Concise Oxford English vocab
CRITICAL — Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. A ~ time, factor, or situation …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
CRITICAL — Synonyms and related words : Herculean, abstruse, accurate, acute, alarming, allegorizing, annotative, appreciative, arduous, attentive, bad, basic, belittling, brutal, captious, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
CRITICAL — a. 1. Exact, nice, accurate. 2. Censorious, carping, cavilling, captious. 3. Determining, decisive, crucial, turning, important. 4. Dangerous, hazardous, imminent, …
Dictionary of English Synonyms
CRITICAL — adjective 1. exhibiting the spirit of one who looks for and points out faults and defects constant critical comments about …
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocabulary
CRITICAL — adj.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary Second Edition
CRITICAL — adj. 1 disapproving VERBS ▪ be ▪ become ▪ remain ADVERB ▪ extremely , fairly , very , etc. ▪ …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
CRITICAL — See ↑ CRITICIZE 6, ↑ IMPORTANT 1, ↑ SERIOUS 1 ◆◆◆ • ↑ be critical
Longman Activator English vocab
CRITICAL — adj. criticizing 1) ~ of (he was ~ of my work) crucial 2) ~ to (~ to our work) 3) …
The Bbi Combinatory Dictionary of English - A Guide to Word Combinations
CRITICAL — (Chemistry and Physics) Of or relating to the value of a measurement, such as temperature, at which an abrupt change …
Environmental Engineering English vocabulary
CRITICAL — See Critical function of philosophy ; Kantianism ; and Representative realism
Theological and Philosophical Biography English vocab
CRITICAL — Критический
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
CRITICAL — критический разборчивый переломный, решающий дефицитный; крайне необходимый; нормируемый рискованный, опасный; критический, угрожающий
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
CRITICAL — (a) критический
English-Russian Lingvistica'98 dictionary
CRITICAL — a 1. критический ~ analysis [examination] - критический анализ [осмотр] 2. 1) решающий, переломный; критический ~ moment - решающий /переломный/ …
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
CRITICAL — adj. критический, критичный, решающий, переломный, опасный, угрожающий, рискованный, разборчивый, дефицитный, крайне необходимый, нормируемый, предельный
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
CRITICAL — adj. критический, критичный, решающий, переломный, опасный, угрожающий, рискованный, разборчивый, дефицитный, крайне необходимый, нормируемый, предельный
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
CRITICAL — критический
Англо-Русский физический словарь
CRITICAL — в соч. - time critical
Англо-Русский словарь по машиностроению и автоматизации производства 2

Collegiate Thesaurus English vocab

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