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criticaladjective given to making or expressing unfavorable judgments about thingsadults tend to be critical of teenagers' taste in music and movies captious, carping, caviling(or cavilling), faultfinding, hypercritical, judgmental, overcritical, rejective discerning, discriminating, judiciousdemanding, exacting, fastidious, finical, finicky, fussy, nitpicky, particular, pickypettifogging, quibblingharsh, merciless, uncharitable, unforgiving uncritical undiscriminatingundemanding, unfussycharitable, forgiving needing immediate attentionthis problem isn't critical, so we can go home now and tend to it in the morning acute, burning, clamant, compelling, crying, dire, emergent, exigent, imperative, imperious, importunate, instant, necessitous, pressing, urgent demanding, extreme, immediate, insistent, intense, overridingcrucial, desperate, grave, life-and-death(also life-or-death), serious, severe, vitaldangerous, explosive, hazardous, perilous, precarious, unstable noncritical, nonurgent incidental, low-pressure, minor, negligible, trivial, unimportantnonthreatening, safe, stable of the greatest possible importancethis is the critical exam that will largely determine your college career crucial, key, pivotal, vital decisive, life-and-death(also life-or-death), weightybasic, elementary, fundamentalessential, indispensable, instrumental, necessary, requisitepressing, urgent inconsequential, insignificant, minor, trivial, unimportant impossible to do withoutcritical information for an informed medical diagnosis all-important, essential, imperative, indispensable, integral, must-have, necessary, necessitous, needed, needful, required, requisite, vital prerequisitecompulsory, mandatory, nonelective, obligatoryconsequential, crucial, important, major, material, meaningful, momentous, significant, substantial, weightybasic, central, fundamental, key, organicinsistent, persistent, pressing, urgent of the essence dispensable, inessential, needless, nonessential, unessential, unnecessary, unneeded undesired, unwantedinconsequential, insignificant, unimportantexcess, external, extra, extraneous, superfluous, surplus critical, hypercritical, faultfinding, captious, carping, censorious mean inclined to look for and point out faults and defects.critical may also imply an effort to see a thing clearly and truly in order to judge it fairly.a critical essay hypercritical suggests a tendency to judge by unreasonably strict standards.hypercritical disparagement of other people's work faultfinding implies a querulous or exacting temperament.a faultfinding reviewer captious suggests a readiness to detect trivial faults or raise objections on trivial grounds.a captious critic carping implies an ill-natured or perverse picking of flaws.a carping editorial censorious implies a disposition to be severely critical and condemnatory.the censorious tone of the review Cf. acute. in 1547 |