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critical (Crucial), adjective acute, anceps, chief, climactic, commanding, considerable, deciding, decisive, determining, dubius, essential, eventful, exigent, far-reaching, fateful, foremost, grave, imperative, imposing, key, major, material, momentous, never to be forgotten, notable, of decisive importance, of great connequence, of importance, of vital importance, outstanding, overruling, overshadowing, paramount, pivotal, pressing, primary, principal, prominent, serious, significant, solemn, strategic, substantial, turning, urgent, vital, weighty
Associated concepts: critical stage of a trial

critical (Faultfinding), adjective accusing, blaming, captious, carping, castigating, caustic, caviling, censorious, censuring, chiding, choleric, comminatory, condemnatory, condemning, criminative, criminatory, criticizing severely, cynical, damnatory, defamatory, denunciatory, derogatory, disapproving, elegans, exacting, hard upon, hardhitting, hypercritical, inclined to judge with severity, nagging, objurgatory, overcritical, rebuking, recriminative, reprehensive, reproachful, reprobative, reproving, scathing, scolding, severe, taunting, ultracritical, upbraiding

See also: acute, crucial, cynical, decisive, discerning, discriminating, essential, exigent, grave, imperative, important, indispensable, judicious, key, material, momentous, necessary, nonconsenting, particular, pejorative, precarious, precise, remonstrative, sensitive, serious, severe, strategic, urgent, vital

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