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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121. Highly critical comments have been made about the conduct of some ministers.
122. He is still in a critical condition in the local hospital.
123. Maisie looked her rival up and down with a critical eye.
124. The incident happened at a critical point in the campaign.
125. The book shows you how to apply critical thinking to your studies.
126. One of the victims of the fire remains in a critical condition.
127. Two of the victims were still on the critical list Sunday night.
128. He has apologised for critical remarks he made about the referee.
129. The school curriculum has undergone critical examination in recent years.
130. She was highly critical of the insensitive and peremptory way in which the cases had been handled.
131. I had heard through the grapevine that he was quite critical of what we were doing.
132. He was admitted to hospital in critical condition, but is now off the danger list.
133. She taught me to be less critical of other people.
134. We tried not to seem critical or judgmental while giving advice that would protect him from ridicule.
135. It is absolutely critical for us to know the truth.
136. Priorities Plus combines life assurance with critical illness cover.
137. Paulo has received critical acclaim for his pop-jazz.
138. Placement of the bass module is particularly critical.
139. Bakhtin is a latecomer on the anglophone critical scene.
140. The Browns have been critical of the judge since she awarded Simpson custody.
141. And yet Roosevelt was not spared the lash of critical analysis.
142. Its implication that information, experience, and feelings presented in a pictorial form are readily and immediately accessible needs critical examination.
143. Foucault's approach and analyses have also to some degree informed this work and for that reason alone deserve a critical appraisal.
144. In some cultures, critical analysis of texts is relatively unknown and may, indeed, be thought offensive.
145. The high acoustic quality of the recordings proved to be critical in such cases.
145. Sentencedict.com is a sentence dictionary, on which you can find excellent sentences for a large number of words.
146. The critical aspect still to be agreed was the gas price.
147. Under changed circumstances, implicit themes, both justificatory and critical, could be jerked into argumentative explicitness.
148. The critical analysis of local and central government performance by the project teams further precipitated the demise of the program.
149. The situation is now so critical that the very structure that is needed to use the aid effectively has disintegrated.
150. Section 58 is not quite as absolutely critical as that case had suggested.
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