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critical
English
Etymology
From the suffix -al and Latin criticus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (kritikós, “of or for judging, able to discern”) <????? (krín?, “I separate, judge”); also the root of crisis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k??t?k?l/
Adjective
critical (comparative more critical, superlative most critical)
- Inclined to find fault or criticize
- Synonyms: fastidious, captious, censorious, exacting
- Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis or turning point.
- Extremely important.
- 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns
- Third Pole glaciers are critical to billions of people from Vietnam to Afghanistan.
- 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns
- Relating to criticism or careful analysis, such as literary or film criticism.
- (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.
- Coordinate terms: fair, serious, stable
- Likely to go out of control if disturbed, that is, opposite of stable.
- (physics) Of the point (in temperature, reagent concentration etc.) where a nuclear or chemical reaction becomes self-sustaining.
- (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.
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Translations
Noun
critical (plural criticals)
- A critical value, factor, etc.
- 2008, John J. Coyle, C. John Langley, Brian Gibson, Supply Chain Management: A Logistics Perspective (page 564)
- Finally, criticals are high-risk, high-value items that give the final product a competitive advantage in the marketplace […] Criticals, in part, determine the customer's ultimate cost of using the finished product — in our example, the computer.
- 2008, John J. Coyle, C. John Langley, Brian Gibson, Supply Chain Management: A Logistics Perspective (page 564)
- In breakdancing, a kind of airflare move in which the dancer hops from one hand to the other.
Further reading
- critical on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Medical state on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- critical in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- critical in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- critical at OneLook Dictionary Search
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crying
English
Etymology
cry +? -ing
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?a??.??/
Adjective
crying (not comparable)
- That cries.
- The crying child on the street was evidently lost.
- That demands action or attention.
- There is a crying need for more manual workers in this country.
- That deserves rebuke or censure.
- It is a crying shame that he managed to get away with that!
Translations
Noun
crying (countable and uncountable, plural cryings)
- The act of one who cries; a weeping or shouting.
- Their constant cryings kept us awake!
Translations
Verb
crying
- present participle of cry
Anagrams
- cringy
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