critical (redirected from embryological critical period)

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

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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

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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