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.
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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211. As far as avant-garde culture is concerned, there is a built-in time-lag between critical reception and popular acceptance.
212. Much of the critical antipathy towards the Reeve derives from the ingestion of such prejudice as opposed to detached examination of it.
213. Doctors' leaders joined calls for the Government to acknowledge that the outbreak had exposed a critical shortage of hospital beds.
214. Is it the thought of prizes, a tenured teaching position, the long-shot of commercial success and critical adoration?
215. When critical habitat is designated, it does not mean federal agents in unmarked helicopters start circling private property.
216. Buoyed by critical acclaim for the 1970 Brooklyn season, Alvin and his dancers faced a year without any significant employment.
217. That brush is a shelter for small animals and birds as well as a critical repository of seeds from native plants.
218. The alert and attentive reader, however, usually brings critical attention to what is being read and reacts in some way.
219. The basic requirement is that glazing in certain critical locations must be safe.
220. These were the critical years(sentencedict.com/critical.html), but it is arguable that this was the critical place.
221. For the next four years it drew critical plaudits and large audiences everywhere it was shown.
222. Lamboume's work is not widely known today, yet during the 1950S he received great critical acclaim.
223. Imposing such a burden would alter the basic structure between state and federal governments, which is critical to our constitutional scheme.
224. Not dissimilar from the system known as critical path analysis, the approach envisaged should show a time-scale allocation against each task.
225. It is also useful to carry out your own critical analysis of an essay you have completed.
226. People adhere to astrology with a dogmatic frame of mind rather than having a sceptical, critical approach.
227. The latter were critical; only by effective network building could the new managers implement their agendas.
228. It won substantial critical acclaim and will show in Britain next year.
229. A more critical appraisal becomes possible as partners step back to regard each other.
230. Their work was absolutely critical to the mission of the company.
231. Such critical perspectives suggest we are in the midst of a thoroughgoing overhaul of traditional ideas about artistic value and meaning.
232. Conclusion Lexical development offers critical insights into the process of language acquisition.
233. They have been dismissed from serious critical attention precisely on these grounds.
234. Getting governments to recognise the importance of an AIDS vaccine is as critical as getting the science right in the laboratory.
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