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Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary
critical
1. marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws (Freq. 7)
- a critical attitude
• Ant:
uncritical
• Similar to:
captious, faultfinding, censorious, deprecative, hypercritical,
overcritical, searing, scathing, vituperative
• See Also:
sarcastic, unfavorable, unfavourable
• Derivationally related forms:
critic, criticism
2. at or of a point at which a property or phenomenon suffers an abrupt change especially having enough mass to sustain a chain reaction (Freq. 5)
- a critical temperature of water is 100 degrees C--its boiling point at standard atmospheric pressure
- critical mass
- go critical
• Ant:
noncritical
• Similar to:
supercritical
• Derivationally related forms:
criticality
• Topics:
chemistry, chemical science, physics, natural philosophy
• Attrubites:
criticality
3. characterized by careful evaluation and judgment (Freq. 5)
- a critical reading
- a critical dissertation
- a critical analysis of Melville's writings
• Ant:
uncritical
• Similar to:
appraising, evaluative, discriminative, judicial
• See Also:
discerning, scholarly
• Derivationally related forms:
critic, criticism
4. urgently needed;
absolutely necessary (Freq. 3)
- a critical element of the plan
- critical medical supplies
- vital for a healthy society
- of vital interest
• Syn:
vital
• Similar to:
indispensable
• Derivationally related forms:
vitalness (for: vital), criticalness, criticality
5. forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis (Freq. 2)
- a critical point in the campaign
- the critical test
• Syn:
decisive
• Similar to:
crucial, important
• Derivationally related forms:
decisiveness (for: decisive), crisis, criticalness
6. being in or verging on a state of crisis or emergency (Freq. 1)
- a critical shortage of food
- a critical illness
- an illness at the critical stage
• Ant:
noncritical
• Similar to:
acute, dangerous, grave, grievous, serious,
severe, life-threatening, desperate, dire
• See Also:
crucial, important
• Derivationally related forms:
criticalness, criticality
• Attrubites:
crisis
7. of or involving or characteristic of critics or criticism
- critical acclaim
• Pertains to noun:
criticism
• Derivationally related forms:
criticism, critic
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