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Critical

adjective

Marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws.

At or of a point at which a property or phenomenon suffers an abrupt change especially having enough mass to sustain a chain reaction. "Critical mass" , "Go critical"

Characterized by careful evaluation and judgment. "A critical dissertation" , "A critical analysis of Melville's writings"

Urgently needed; absolutely necessary. Synonym: vital. "Critical medical supplies" , "Vital for a healthy society" , "Of vital interest"

Forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis. Synonym: decisive. "The critical test"

Being in or verging on a state of crisis or emergency. "A critical illness" , "An illness at the critical stage"

Of or involving or characteristic of critics or criticism.

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"Critical" Quotes from Famous Books

... It is the critical moment that shows the man. So when the crisis is upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough and stalwart antagonist.—"To what end?" you ask. That you may prove the victor at the Great Games. Yet without ...

— The Golden Sayings of Epictetus • Epictetus

... teachers) are likely to approach with ready-made prejudices. It is impossible to treat such a subject in quite the ordinary matter-of-course way. Furthermore, his writings are so highly subjective, and so intimately connected with his strongly held critical theories, as to need somewhat careful and extended study. These facts make it very difficult to treat either the man or his art as simply as is desirable in a secondary text-book. Consequently the Introduction is longer and less simple than the editor would desire for the usual text. ...

— Selections From Poe • J. Montgomery Gambrill

... lips his deep but chastened sense of happiness, when the party expected, entered the room—Von Vottenberg immediately applying himself to an examination of the patient, whose condition, it was evident from his unusually grave look, he conceived to be highly critical. ...

— Hardscrabble - The Fall of Chicago: A Tale of Indian Warfare • John Richardson

... "In critical times we always saw this state, destined to be the bulwark against Asiatic invasions, helpless and hesitating. In an unfortunate blindness this state has never understood its true interests, always suppressing its moral duty to accord to all races ...

— Independent Bohemia • Vladimir Nosek

... rounded the bend; at the head of the lake, under a mountain slope, they saw the little central dining-shack of their hotel and the crescent of squat log cottages which served as bedrooms. They landed, and endured the critical examination of the habitues who had been at the hotel for a whole week. In their cottage, with its high stone fireplace, they hastened, as Babbitt expressed it, to "get into some regular he-togs." They came out; Paul in an old gray suit and soft white shirt; Babbitt ...

— Babbitt • Sinclair Lewis

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