critical

adjective · nounB1

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Tính từ

adjective
Comparative
more critical
Superlative
most critical
  1. 1.

    Inclined to find fault or criticize.

    A good teacher is fair but critical.

    Đồng nghĩa: fastidious, captious, censorious, exacting, judgmental

  2. 2.

    Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis or turning point.

    This is a critical moment.

  3. 3.

    Extremely important.

    It's critical that you deliver this on time.

    Đồng nghĩa: crucial, imperative

  4. 4.

    Relating to criticism or careful analysis, such as literary or film criticism.

    The movie was a critical success, but bombed at the box-office.

  5. 5.

    (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.

    The patient's condition is critical.

  6. 6.

    (broadly)(medicine, by extension) In such a condition.

    The patient is critical.

    Two critical after fatal Wimbledon school crash

  7. 7.

    Likely to go out of control if disturbed, that is, opposite of stable.

    The political situation was so critical that the government declared the state of siege.

  8. 8.

    (physics) Of the point (in temperature, reagent concentration etc.) where a nuclear or chemical reaction becomes self-sustaining.

    The reaction was about to become critical.

  9. 9.

    (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 liquefied.

  10. 10.

    (botany) Needing great discrimination to be correctly classified; easily confused.

    critical plants

Danh từ

noun
Plural noun:
criticals
  1. 1.

    A critical value, factor, etc.

  2. 2.

    critical hit

    Đồng nghĩa: crit

  3. 3.

    In breakdancing, a kind of airflare move in which the dancer hops from one hand to the other.

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Đồng nghĩa

fastidiouscaptiouscensoriousexactingjudgmentalcrucialimperativecrit

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