different between unkind vs critical
unkind
English
Etymology
From un- +? kind.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?ka?nd/
- Rhymes: -a?nd
Adjective
unkind (comparative unkinder or more unkind, superlative unkindest or most unkind)
- Lacking kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or similar; cruel, harsh or unjust; ungrateful. [From mid-14thC.]
- c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene 2,[1]
- Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him!
- This was the most unkindest cut of all;
- For when the noble Caesar saw him stab,
- Ingratitude, more strong than traitors’ arms,
- Quite vanquish’d him: then burst his mighty heart;
- 1720, Alexander Pope (translator), The Iliad of Homer, London: W. Bowyer and Bernard Lintott, Volume 6, Book 24, lines 968-971, p. 189,[2]
- Yet was it ne’er my Fate, from thee to find
- A Deed ungentle, or a Word unkind:
- When others curst the Auth’ress of their Woe,
- Thy Pity check’d my Sorrows in their Flow:
- 1814, Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, Chapter 2,[3]
- Nobody meant to be unkind, but nobody put themselves out of their way to secure her comfort.
- 1950 July 3, Politicians Without Politics, Life, page 16,
- Despite the bursitis, Dewey got in a good round of golf, though his cautious game inspired a reporter to make one of the week?s unkindest remarks: “He plays golf like he plays politics — straight down the middle, and short.”
- 1974, Laurence William Wylie, Village in the Vaucluse, 3rd Edition, page 175,
- We had to learn that to refuse such gifts, which represented serious sacrifice, was more unkind than to accept them.
- 2000, Edward W. Said, On Lost Causes, in Reflections on Exile and Other Essays, page 540,
- In the strictness with which he holds this view he belongs in the company of the novelists I have cited, except that he is unkinder and less charitable than they are.
- c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene 2,[1]
- (obsolete) Not kind; contrary to nature or type; unnatural. [From 13thC.]
- 1582, Stephen Batman (translator), Batman vppon Bartholome His Booke De Proprietatibus Rerum, London, Book 7, Chapter 33,[4]
- […] A Feauer is an vnkinde heate, that commeth out of the heart, and passeth into all the members of the bodye, and grieueth the working of the bodye.
- 1617, John Davies, Wits Bedlam, London, Epigram 116,[5]
- Crowes will not feed their yong til 9. daies old,
- Because their vnkind colour makes them doubt
- Them to be theirs;
- 1582, Stephen Batman (translator), Batman vppon Bartholome His Booke De Proprietatibus Rerum, London, Book 7, Chapter 33,[4]
- (obsolete) Having no race or kindred; childless.
- 1593, William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis,[6]
- O, had thy mother borne so hard a mind,
- She had not brought forth thee, but died unkind.
- 1593, William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis,[6]
Derived terms
- unkindest cut
Related terms
- unkindly
- unkindness
Anagrams
- Dunkin, nudnik
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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.
Derived terms
Related terms
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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