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Từ điển WordNet v3.1 - WordNet 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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