| 单词 | critical |
| 释义 | critical (once / 86 pages) 1adj 2adj 3adj The adjective critical has several meanings, among them, "vital," "verging on emergency," "tending to point out errors," and "careful." If you're an emergency-room doctor with a patient in critical condition (on the highest alert), it's absolutely critical (vital or essential) that you be critical (careful and judicious) in your approach to their care, so that at the critical (decisive) moment, you can save their life. You must also be critical (that is, you must point out all the errors and flaws) of the jobs your colleagues are doing. WORD FAMILYcritical: acritical, criticality, critically, criticalness, criticism, hypercritical, noncritical, overcritical, supercritical, uncritical+/critic: critical, criticise, criticize, critics/criticise: criticised, criticises, criticising/criticism: criticisms, self-criticism/criticize: criticized, criticizes, criticizing/hypercritical: hypercritically/overcritical: overcritically/uncritical: uncritically USAGE EXAMPLESPolice spokeswoman Sherry Llewellyn said Monday he remains in critical condition at a Baltimore hospital. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) In 1974, when his critical influence was probably at its height in Britain, he left London for Paris and then Geneva. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) “We urge you to preserve this critical U.S. strategic asset,” the letter read. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1adj of or involving or characteristic of critics or criticism critical acclaim 2adj characterized by careful evaluation and judgment a critical reading a critical dissertation a critical analysis of Melville's writings Syn|Ant appraising, evaluative exercising or involving careful evaluations discriminative, judicialexpressing careful judgment discerninghaving or revealing keen insight and good judgment scholarlycharacteristic of scholars or scholarship noncritical, uncritical marked by disregard for critical standards or procedures unscholarlynot scholarly 3adj marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws 2a critical attitude Syn|Ant captious, faultfinding tending to find and call attention to faults censoriousharshly critical or expressing censure deprecativegiven to expressing disapproval hypercritical, overcriticalinclined to judge too severely searingseverely critical scathing, vituperativemarked by harshly abusive criticism unfavorable, unfavourablenot encouraging or approving or pleasing sarcasticexpressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds uncritical not critical; not tending to find or call attention to errors 1adj urgently needed; absolutely necessary a critical element of the plan critical medical supplies Syn vital indispensable not to be dispensed with; essential 2adj forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis a critical point in the campaign the critical test Syn decisive crucial, important of extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis 3adj being in or verging on a state of crisis or emergency 3a critical shortage of food a critical illness an illness at the critical stage Syn|Ant acute of critical importance and consequence dangerous, grave, grievous, life-threatening, serious, severecausing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm desperate, direfraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless crucial, importantof extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis noncritical, noncrucial not in a state of crisis or emergency acriticalwithout a crisis (as of some diseases) adj 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 go critical Syn|Ant supercritical (especially of fissionable material) able to sustain a chain reaction in such a manner that the rate of reaction increases noncritical not critical; not at a point of abrupt change |
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