Critical



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• adj. 找出毛病的;关键的
• ［英］ adj. 找出毛病的 ( looking for faults) ; 关键的 ( of or at a crisis)
• ［类］ bombast : pompous / tirade : critical ( 夸大的言辞是夸大的 / 长篇攻击性演说是批评的)
• ［记］ crit+ical

Webster Collegiate

adjective

• Date: 1547
• 1.
  • a. of, relating to, or being a turning point or specially important juncture critical phase: as
    • (1) relating to or being the stage of a disease at which an abrupt change for better or worse may be expected; also being or relating to an illness or condition involving danger of death <critical care patient listed in critical condition
    • (2) relating to or being a state in which or a measurement or point at which some quality, property, or phenomenon suffers a definite change <critical temperature
  • b. crucial, decisive critical test
  • c. indispensable, vital critical waterfowl habitat component critical to the operation of a machine
  • d. being in or approaching a state of crisis critical shortage critical situation
• 2.
  • a. inclined to criticize severely and unfavorably
  • b. consisting of or involving criticism <critical writings; also of or relating to the judgment of critics <the play was a critical success
  • c. exercising or involving careful judgment or judicious evaluation <critical thinking
  • d. including variant readings and scholarly emendations critical edition
• 3.
  • a. of sufficient size to sustain a chain reaction — used of a mass of fissionable material critical mass
  • b. sustaining a nuclear chain reaction <the reactor went critical
• ? criticality noun
• ? critically adverb
• ? criticalness noun
• Synonyms:
  • critical, hypercritical, faultfinding, captious, carping, censorious mean inclined to look for and point out faults and defects. critical may also imply an effort to see a thing clearly and truly in order to judge it fairly critical essay. hypercritical suggests a tendency to judge by unreasonably strict standards<hypercritical disparagement of other people's work. faultfinding implies a querulous or exacting temperament faultfinding reviewer. captious suggests a readiness to detect trivial faults or raise objections on trivial grounds captious critic. carping implies an ill-natured or perverse picking of flaws carping editorial. censorious implies a disposition to be severely critical and condemnatory<the censorious tone of the review.
• Synonym: ［i］see in additi

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