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"a critical point in the campaign" "the critical test"adjectiveforming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis
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"a critical element of the plan" "critical medical supplies"adjectiveurgently needed; absolutely necessary
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"a critical temperature of water is 100 degrees C--its boiling point at standard atmospheric pressure" "critical mass" "go critical"adjectiveat 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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"a critical shortage of food" "a critical illness" "an illness at the critical stage"adjectivebeing in or verging on a state of crisis or emergencyOpposite:
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"a critical reading" "a critical dissertation" "a critical analysis of Melville's writings"adjectivecharacterized by careful evaluation and judgment
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"a critical attitude"adjectivemarked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws
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"critical acclaim"of or involving or characteristic of critics or criticism
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important serious dangerous grave desperate crisis vital severe crucial criticism critic acute decisive sarcastic dire judicial indispensable grievous scholarly searing unfavorable discerning appraising scathing unfavourable supercritical discriminative hypercritical criticalness criticality life-threatening evaluative vituperative captious censorious deprecative faultfinding overcritical