critical

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Synonyms: tritical, acritical, clinical, criminal, cryptical, critic, cortical, soritical, orifical, uncritical, erotical

Antonyms: tritical, acritical, clinical, criminal, cryptical, critic, cortical, soritical, orifical, uncritical, erotical

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Adjective

1. Inclined to [[find fault]] or [[criticize]].
2. Pertaining to, or indicating, a [[crisis]] or [[turning point]].
3. Extremely [[important]].
4. Relating to [[criticism]] or [[careful]] [[analysis]], such as [[literary]] or [[film]] criticism.
5. {{lb|en|medicine}} 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.
6. {{lb|en|medicine|by extension}} In such a condition.
7. Likely to go [[out of control]] if disturbed, that is, opposite of [[stable]].
8. {{lb|en|physics}} Of the point (in [[temperature]], [[reagent]] concentration etc.) where a [[nuclear reaction|nuclear]] or [[chemical reaction]] becomes [[self-sustaining]].
9. {{lb|en|physics}} 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 [[liquefy|liquefied]].
10. {{lb|en|botany}} Needing great [[discrimination]] to be correctly [[classify|classified]]; easily confused.

Noun

1. A critical [[value]], [[factor]], etc.
2. [[critical hit]]
3. In [[breakdancing]], a kind of [[airflare]] [[move]] in which the dancer [[hop]]s from one hand to the other.

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