Synonym: crucial, decisive, faultfinding, pressing, urgent. Antonym: approbatory, complimentary, uncritical. Similar words: critic, criticize, political, politically, vertical, practical, identical, practically. Meaning: ['krɪtɪkl] adj. 1. marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws 2. at or of a point at which a property or phenomenon suffers an abrupt change especially having enough mass to sustain a chain reaction 3. characterized by careful evaluation and judgment 4. urgently needed; absolutely necessary 5. forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis 6. being in or verging on a state of crisis or emergency 7. of or involving or characteristic of critics or criticism.
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91. Try to develop a more critical attitude, instead of accepting everything at face value.
92. In her day she never received the critical acclaim she deserved.
93. The critical reaction to his first novel has been positive.
94. Sociologists must maintain critical distance from the ideas of society at any particular time.
95. Costs can be calculated once the critical path has been established.
96. Critical thinking is essentially negative as it seeks to dissect and not to build.
97. In the current critical climate her work is not popular.
98. The book came out last year to great critical acclaim .
99. In judging these issues a degree of critical detachment is required.
100. And she, too, suffers from a lack of critical engagement with the literary texts.
101. When I produced this piece of work, my lecturers were very critical.
102. Maintaining control of the budget is absolutely critical for success.
103. The report is critical of the department's waste of resources.
104. The literature on immigration policy is almost unrelievedly critical of the state.
105. The team went through their paces under their trainer's critical eye.
106. Although we bent over backwards to please her, our new manager was still very critical of our work.
107. The German authorities are considering an airlift if the situation becomes critical.
108. Ten of the injured are said to be in critical condition.
109. Reducing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is of critical importance.
110. His book provides a critical analysis of the television industry in Britain.
111. The report is critical of attempts by officialdom to deal with the problem of homelessness.
112. The report was highly critical of the railway's poor safety record.
113. Their chief negotiator turned his critical eye on the United States.
114. How can we get a critical mass of people involved to keep the club running?
115. The avoidance of injury is critical to a professional athlete.
116. The first 24 hours after the operation are the most critical.
117. France no longer wants to be left on the sidelines when critical decisions are taken.
118. The fighting has stopped(sentencedict.com/critical.html), but the situation is still critical.
119. This reorganization is critical to the long-term future of the company.
120. What you do for a living is critical to where you settle and how you live — and the converse is also true.
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