This is a critically important meeting.criticallycrit·i·cally /ˈkrɪtɪkli/ ●○○ adverb 
Ten people died and thirty were critically injured in a rail crash yesterday. She is still critically ill in hospital.2important in a way that is very important SYN crucially: The success of the project depends critically on the continuation of this funding. This is a critically important meeting.3serious/worrying in a way that is very serious and worrying SYN dangerously: Food supplies are at a critically low level.4criticizing in a way that shows you are criticizing someone or something: Mike looked at her critically. He has spoken critically of the government’s refusal to support the industry.5making judgments thinking about something and giving a careful judgment about how good or bad it is: We teach students to think critically about the texts they are reading.6art/literature according to critics who give judgments about art, films, theatre, and books: The play was critically acclaimed (=praised by critics) when it opened in London last month.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- College taught me to think critically about religion.
- As a result, planning the future has become even more critically important.
- She tried to stop the children visiting their critically ill father.
- Such publications must be treated critically.
- The size and length of an irrigation ditch depend critically on the number of people who use it.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY This is a critically important meeting. We teach students to think critically about the texts they are reading. The play was critically acclaimed (=praised by critics) when it opened in London last month.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES His work was critically acclaimed (=praised by people who are paid to give their opinion on art, music etc). Two people have been critically injured in an accident.
This is a critically important meeting. We teach students to think critically about the texts they are reading. The play was critically acclaimed (=praised by critics) when it opened in London last month. His work was critically acclaimed (=praised by people who are paid to give their opinion on art, music etc). (=so ill that you might die)· He got news that his mother was critically ill in hospital.
Two people have been critically injured in an accident.· The ward was packed with seriously ill patients.
(=be so badly wounded that you might die)· He was critically wounded in the attack.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· The abilities of staff and availability of facilities to care for critically ill patients vary in all areas of health care.· If the infant is critically ill, we talk with them at least twice a day.· In April 1946, Moritz was critically ill.· He was taken to hospital critically ill with severe head injuries - leaving girlfriend Donna Lorenz, 23, speechless.· Last night Suzanne was critically ill in intensive care at Withington Hospital.· It will be the first journal to make immediately available findings that could save or extend the lives of critically ill patients.· The unprovoked attack has left the man critically ill in hospital.
· The first five years of life are critically important in shaping every person's unique individuality.· That this critically important service is badly needed for all media use goes without saying, and here is a model.· Awareness of such differences is critically important in creating Great Groups.· Further, whatever subjects were chosen, it was the tutor who was the critically important factor in success or failure.· Those individuals will form the critically important vanguard of a new workforce.· As a result, planning the future has become even more critically important.· That became a critically important factor for Nixon.
VERB· But the colliery band played on-providing the story behind the critically acclaimed film Brassed Off starring Ewan MacGregor.· Collins also played Valentine in the critically acclaimed 1989 movie.· From the outset, they were critically acclaimed.
· Such studies depend critically upon a knowledge of the total baseline flora in particular environments.· The size and length of an irrigation ditch depend critically on the number of people who use it.· The impact of these policies towards this goal depends critically on how they are implemented.· It depends critically on the description language.· The response depends critically on the particular experimental method used to provoke it.· The implementation of such policies depends critically on the refereeing of research proposals and the operation of grant-awarding committees.
· From 1884 to his death Lewis was involved in critically evaluating Robert Koch's bacteriological explanation of cholera.· To work in groups and be able to critically evaluate materials.· In the process, world-system theories, and particularly the idea of a new international division of labour, are critically evaluated.
· Consequently it is important to critically examine its basis in reality.· The regulatory commissions and antitrust laws will be examined critically in Chapter 34.· You may wish to consider the nature of its nationalisation programme and critically examine how radical or socialist it was.· It requires that we critically examine a beliefs rooted in our understanding of Scripture that previously seemed so clear.· To this end it examines critically the assumptions underlying the advocacy of these employment policies.· Thus it is important to examine critically the different explanations of our present plight, and the different proposals to solve it.· We must also examine critically the notion that individual practitioners enjoy an autonomy which is somehow derived from that of the collectivity.· What the model does is to suggest at least two things that need to be examined critically.
· The fourth man was critically injured.· There were at least 45 bodies and many more victims were critically injured, the officials said.· A businessman walking to his car was struck by lightning and critically injured as co-workers watched in awe.· Of the 15 people on board, three died and five were critically injured.· About 70 people were injured in Seattle, including two men critically injured from an assault and a fall from an overpass.
· New habits Look critically at your daily routine.· It requires teachers to look critically at their own present practice as well as being able to conceive of alternatives.
· The government can not tell its citizens not to think critically of the law or the government.
· A settlers' spokesman said that the motorist was critically wounded.· Mrs Mitchley's husband, Norman, 47, is critically wounded.· If fighting breaks out, they tell her, every bed may be needed for critically wounded GIs.· Hamilton in Z2901 being shot down and critically wounded by Graf von Kageneck; he died shortly afterwards.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
- A businessman walking to his car was struck by lightning and critically injured as co-workers watched in awe.
- He was taken to hospital critically ill with severe head injuries - leaving girlfriend Donna Lorenz, 23, speechless.
- If the infant is critically ill, we talk with them at least twice a day.
- In April 1946, Moritz was critically ill.
- Last night Suzanne was critically ill in intensive care at Withington Hospital.
- The abilities of staff and availability of facilities to care for critically ill patients vary in all areas of health care.
WORD FAMILYnouncriticcriticismadjectivecritical ≠ uncriticalverbcriticizeadverbcritically ≠ uncritically
1critically ill/injured so ill or so badly injured that you might die: Ten people died and thirty were critically injured in a rail crash yesterday. She is still critically ill in hospital.2important in a way that is very important SYN crucially: The success of the project depends critically on the continuation of this funding. This is a critically important meeting.3serious/worrying in a way that is very serious and worrying SYN dangerously: Food supplies are at a critically low level.4criticizing in a way that shows you are criticizing someone or something: Mike looked at her critically. He has spoken critically of the government’s refusal to support the industry.5making judgments thinking about something and giving a careful judgment about how good or bad it is: We teach students to think critically about the texts they are reading.6art/literature according to critics who give judgments about art, films, theatre, and books: The play was critically acclaimed (=praised by critics) when it opened in London last month.