- Types Of Speech
- You can use critical as a article or as a adjective satellite in a sentence.
- About Critical
- A 3 syllables article and 8 letters with the letters a, c, i, l, r, and t, 5 consonants, 3 vowels and 3 syllables with the middle letters ti. Critical starts with and ends in a consonant with the starting letters c, cr, cri, crit, criti, and the ending characters are l, al, cal, ical, tical, ..
- Definition
- Marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws; "a critical attitude"
- Origin/Roots
- Latin
- School Grade
- Critical is set as a sat word that starts with c, ends with l, 3 syllables, 3 vowels and 8 letters.
- Pig Latin
- Critical in Pig Latin is said as "iticalcray or iticalcrway".
- Unigram
- c | r | i | t | i | c | a | l
- Bigram
- cr | ri | it | ti | ic | ca | al
- Trigram
- cri | rit | iti | tic | ica | cal
- Quadrigram
- crit | riti | itic | tica | ical
- Word Gram
- Article Examples
- marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws;
"a critical attitude" - characterized by careful evaluation and judgment;
"a critical reading";
"a critical dissertation";
"a critical analysis of Melville's writings" - being in or verging on a state of crisis or emergency;
"a critical shortage of food";
"a critical illness";
"an illness at the critical stage" - at or of a point at which a property or phenomenon suffers an abrupt change especially having enough mass to sustain a chain reaction;
"a critical temperature of water is 100 degrees C--its boiling point at standard atmospheric pressure";
"critical mass"; - of or involving or characteristic of critics or criticism;
"critical acclaim"
- Adjective Satellite Examples
- forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis;
"a critical point in the campaign";
"the critical test" - urgently needed;
absolutely necessary;
"a critical element of the plan";
"critical medical supplies";
"vital for a healthy society";
"of vital interest"
| Synonym | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abstruse | difficult to penetrate incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge "the professor''s lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them" "a deep metaphysical theory" "some recondite problem in historiography" |
| Accurate | conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy "an accurate reproduction" "the accounting was accurate" "accurate measurements" "an accurate scale" |
| Acute | a mark ('') placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation |
| Acute Accent | |
| Ague | a mark ('') placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation |
| Alarming | causing alarm or fear |
| Allegorizing | |
| Amercement | money extracted as a penalty |
| Annotative | |
| Appreciative | having or showing appreciation or a favorable critical judgment or opinion "appreciative of a beautiful landscape" "an appreciative laugh from the audience" |
View all cognitive synonyms for Critical
| Antonym | Definition |
|---|---|
| Uncritical | not critical not tending to find or call attention to errors "a devoted and almost uncritical admirer" |
| Anagram | Definition |
|---|---|
| Critical | marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws "a critical attitude" |
View English words with the unique letters used in critical. Words With The Letters Acilrt
| Similar Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Blistering | the formation of vesicles |
| Captious | tending to find and call attention to faults; "a captious pedant"; "an excessively demanding and faultfinding tutor" |
| Carping | persistent petty and unjustified criticism |
| Caviling | quibbling over insignificant details; "caviling pettifoggers and quiggling pleaders"-Edmund Burke; "her nagging and carping attack"; "thought her editor unnecessarily nitpicking"; "a pettifogging lawyer''s mind"; "had no patience with quibbling critics" |
| Censorious | harshly critical or expressing censure; "was censorious of petty failings" |
| Deprecative | given to expressing disapproval |
| Faultfinding | persistent petty and unjustified criticism |
| Hypercritical | inclined to judge too severely; "hypercritical of colloquial speech"; "the overcritical teacher can discourage originality" |
| Nitpicking | quibbling over insignificant details; "caviling pettifoggers and quiggling pleaders"-Edmund Burke; "her nagging and carping attack"; "thought her editor unnecessarily nitpicking"; "a pettifogging lawyer''s mind"; "had no patience with quibbling critics" |
| Overcritical | inclined to judge too severely; "hypercritical of colloquial speech"; "the overcritical teacher can discourage originality" |
Similar Words Of Critical
| See Also | Definition |
|---|---|
| Sarcastic | expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds |
| Unfavorable | (of winds or weather) tending to hinder or oppose; "unfavorable winds" |
| Unfavourable | (of winds or weather) tending to hinder or oppose; "unfavorable winds" |
| Title | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Negative Feelings | Describe critical | A word list of negative feeling words and the best English words to describe negative emotions. Emotional negative words... read more |
Critical Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With C
- Ends With L
- Spelled With / Contains Letters
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