critical
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
human-sciences
linguistics
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
textual-criticism
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *krey-
Proto-Indo-European *krinyétider.
Proto-Hellenic *kríňňō
Ancient Greek κρῑ́νω (krī́nō)
Ancient Greek κρῐ- (krĭ-)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek κρῐτής (krĭtḗs)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós)
Ancient Greek κριτικός (kritikós)bor.
Latin criticus
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English critical
From Latin criticus + English -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more critical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most critical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: criticals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Inclined to find fault or criticize.
pos: adj
examples: A good teacher is fair but critical.
Let us go back to the beginning and consider what the charge is that has made people so critical of me, and has encouraged Meletus to draw up this indictment.
gloss: Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis or turning point.
pos: adj
examples: This is a critical moment.
Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability: […] it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
gloss: Extremely important.
pos: adj
examples: It's critical that you deliver this on time.
Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis:[…]. The evolutionary precursor of photosynthesis is still under debate, and a new study sheds light. The critical component of the photosynthetic system is the “water-oxidizing complex”, made up of manganese atoms and a calcium atom.
Third Pole glaciers are critical to billions of people from Vietnam to Afghanistan.
gloss: Relating to criticism or careful analysis, such as literary or film criticism.
pos: adj
examples: The movie was a critical success, but bombed at the box-office.
“Unless you are purchasing cereal from a health food store, many brands that are marketed as healthy are usually full of sugar and processed ingredients,” says Garcia.
 So when you’re choosing cereal, bread or any other whole-grain product, Garcia recommends reading labels with a critical eye.
gloss: Relating to criticism or careful analysis, such as literary or film criticism.
pos: adj
gloss: Of a patient condition involving unstable vital signs and a prognosis that predicts the condition could worsen; or, a patient condition that requires urgent treatment in an intensive care or critical care medical facility.
pos: adj
examples: The patient's condition is critical.
gloss: In such a condition.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
examples: The patient is critical.
Two critical after fatal Wimbledon school crash
gloss: Likely to go out of control if disturbed, that is, opposite of stable.
pos: adj
examples: The political situation was so critical that the government declared the state of siege.
gloss: Of the point (in temperature, reagent concentration etc.) where a nuclear or chemical reaction becomes self-sustaining.
pos: adj
examples: The reaction was about to become critical.
gloss: Of a temperature that is equal to the temperature of the critical point of a substance, i.e. the temperature above which the substance cannot be liquefied.
pos: adj
gloss: Needing great discrimination to be correctly classified; easily confused.
pos: adj
examples: critical plants
gloss: A critical value, factor, etc.
pos: noun
examples: The second undamped system criticals show a greater percentage depression than the first.
Finally, criticals are high-risk, high-value items that give the final product a competitive advantage in the marketplace […] Criticals, in part, determine the customer's ultimate cost of using the finished product — in our example, the computer.
gloss: critical hit
pos: noun
gloss: In breakdancing, a kind of airflare move in which the dancer hops from one hand to the other.
pos: noun
Related words: critic
criticism
Derived words: accelerated critical illness
acritical
antecritical
anticritical
autocritical
bicritical
biocritical
business-critical
cricondentherm
crifanac
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
criticality
critical load
critically
critical mass
Critical Mass
critical micelle concentration
criticalness
critical opalescence
critical path
critical period
critical philosophy
critical point
critical point drying
critical race theory
critical rationalism
critical reception
critical Reynolds number
critical section
critical success factor
critical support
critical taper
critical temperature
critical theory
critical thinking
critical tide level
critical ward
delayed critical
ecocritical
ethnocritical
Eurocritical
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
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: քննական
roman: kʻnnakan
lang: Bulgarian
word: критичен
roman: kritičen
lang: Catalan
word: crític
lang: Dutch
word: kritisch
lang: Finnish
word: arvostelu-
lang: German
word: Kritiker-
lang: German
word: Kritik-
lang: Greek
word: κριτικός
roman: kritikós
lang: Hungarian
word: kritikai
lang: Irish
word: cáinteach
lang: Irish
word: criticiúil
lang: Kazakh
word: сыншыл
roman: synşyl
lang: Kazakh
word: сыни
roman: syni
lang: Korean
word: 비판적
roman: bipanjeok
lang: Persian
word: انتقادی
roman: enteqâdi
lang: Russian
word: крити́ческий
roman: kritíčeskij
lang: Slovak
word: kritický
lang: Spanish
word: crítico
lang: Thai
word: เกี่ยวกับการวิจารณ์
lang: Ukrainian
word: крити́чний
roman: krytýčnyj
lang: Finnish
word: kriittinen
lang: Italian
word: critico
lang: Slovak
word: kritický