What is another word for critical?
1014 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ kɹˈɪtɪkə͡l], [ kɹˈɪtɪkəl], [ k_ɹ_ˈɪ_t_ɪ_k_əl]Table of Contents
Similar words for critical:- acute (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- big league (adjective)
- burning (adjective)
- cantankerous (adjective)
- carping (adjective)
- censorious (adjective)
- climactic (adjective)
- climactic/climacteric (adjective)
- complaining (adjective)
- critical (adjective)
- dangerous (adjective)
- deciding (adjective)
- decisive (adjective)
- deconstructionist (adjective)
- delicate (adjective)
- demanding (adjective)
- deprecative (adjective)
- deprecatory (adjective)
- derogatory (adjective)
- desperate (adjective)
- detractive (adjective)
- discerning (adjective)
- discriminating (adjective)
- dissatisfied (adjective)
- edgy (adjective)
- eventful (adjective)
- exacting (adjective)
- exigent (adjective)
- explanatory (adjective)
- expository (adjective)
- fastidious (adjective)
- fateful (adjective)
- fault-finding, detracting (adjective)
- fine (adjective)
- finical (adjective)
- finicky (adjective)
- fretful (adjective)
- grave (adjective)
- hard-to-please (adjective)
- heavyweight (adjective)
- hermeneutic (adjective)
- hermeneutical (adjective)
- hypercritical (adjective)
- immediate (adjective)
- imperative (adjective)
- important (adjective)
- interpretive (adjective)
- ironic/ironical (adjective)
- irritable (adjective)
- life-and-death (adjective)
- life-threatening (adjective)
- literal (adjective)
- main (adjective)
- major (adjective)
- major-league (adjective)
- memorable (adjective)
- minute (adjective)
- momentous (adjective)
- nasty (adjective)
- nice (adjective)
- particular (adjective)
- peevish (adjective)
- penetrating (adjective)
- pivotal (adjective)
- pressing (adjective)
- querulous (adjective)
- scrupulous (adjective)
- severe (adjective)
- sharp (adjective)
- sore (adjective)
- ticklish (adjective)
- tight (adjective)
- trenchant (adjective)
- tricky (adjective)
- twitchy (adjective)
- underlying (adjective)
- unflattering (adjective)
- urgent (adjective)
- urgently important (adjective)
- vital (adjective)
- weighty (adjective)
- appraising (noun)
- captious (noun)
- caviling (noun)
- critical (noun)
- crucial (noun)
- deconstructionist (noun, adjective)
- other synonyms
- historic
- hypercritical
- ill-tempered
- naive
- urgent
Synonyms for Critical:
adj.
•acute (adjective) •all (adjective) •big league (adjective) •burning (adjective) •cantankerous (adjective)- snappish,
- most vinegarish,
- ill-humored,
- irritable,
- more ill-humored,
- obstinate,
- most bearish,
- ill natured,
- more vinegary,
- dis agreeable,
- more ill humored,
- badtempered,
- ill humored,
- illhumored,
- huffy,
- illnatured,
- most illhumored,
- more bearish,
- more illhumored,
- most ill humored,
- more vinegarish,
- morose,
- bad tempered,
- most vinegary,
- dis-agreeable,
- most ill-humored.
- more caviling,
- nit picking,
- overcritical,
- scathing,
- most criticizing,
- more bellyaching,
- most moaning,
- more nit-picking,
- most kvetching,
- more kvetching,
- most caviling,
- more grousing,
- more nit picking,
- more whining,
- grumbling,
- more criticizing,
- most whining,
- most bellyaching,
- most griping,
- most nit picking,
- most grousing,
- fault finding,
- more griping,
- over-critical,
- more moaning,
- most nit-picking.
- more condemnatory,
- more reproaching,
- more culpatory,
- dis-approving,
- more reprehending,
- most reprehending,
- most cavillous,
- more condemning,
- most condemning,
- more denouncing,
- dis approving,
- most culpatory,
- most reproaching,
- more chiding,
- more disapproving,
- most disapproving,
- most chiding,
- most condemnatory,
- more cavillous,
- most denouncing.
- be wailing,
- more dissenting,
- more protesting,
- more regretting,
- most accusing,
- most repining,
- re-pining,
- most protesting,
- most dissenting,
- most murmuring,
- more murmuring,
- most charging,
- be-wailing,
- more mourning,
- more repining,
- pro testing,
- most bewailing,
- most regretting,
- most mourning,
- pro-testing,
- more bewailing,
- more charging,
- more accusing,
- re pining.
- perilous,
- parlous,
- hazardous,
- shaky,
- dangersome,
- on collision course,
- risky,
- portentous,
- Jeopardous.
- all out,
- more strong minded,
- most strongminded,
- litmus test,
- re solute,
- strong minded,
- final,
- more strong-minded,
- peremptory,
- most strong-minded,
- in tent,
- re-solute,
- more strongminded,
- re solved,
- most resolved,
- most strong minded,
- re-solved,
- strongminded,
- more resolved.
- most revisionist,
- de-constructionists,
- demystifyings,
- criticals,
- de constructionist,
- more demythifying,
- de-mystifying,
- re-interpreting,
- hermeneuticals,
- debunkings,
- demythifyings,
- more debunking,
- de bunking,
- more reinterpreting,
- de constructionists,
- more revisionist,
- de mystifying,
- re interpreting,
- more demystifying,
- de-bunking,
- de-mythifying,
- most demystifying,
- de-constructionist,
- most reinterpreting,
- de mythifying.
- more finicking,
- thin skinned,
- most finicking,
- more hair-trigger,
- most hair trigger,
- thinskinned,
- more hair trigger,
- hair-trigger,
- un-predictable,
- hair trigger,
- un predictable,
- prudish,
- most hairtrigger,
- more hairtrigger,
- re fined,
- most hair-trigger.
- de-grading,
- de rogatory,
- de-rogatory,
- more aspersing,
- more reproachful,
- most belittling,
- most maligning,
- de crying,
- un-favorable,
- more belittling,
- most detracting,
- dis honoring,
- more demeaning,
- more dishonoring,
- de spiteful,
- de-spiteful,
- most decrying,
- most reproachful,
- opprobrious,
- un favorable,
- more detracting,
- de grading,
- de meaning,
- de-crying,
- most demeaning,
- most minimizing,
- more decrying,
- most dishonoring,
- more maligning,
- dis-honoring,
- more minimizing,
- most vilifying,
- most aspersing,
- de-meaning,
- more vilifying.
- in sighted,
- in-sighted,
- more clear sighted,
- clear sighted,
- most insighted,
- more clear-sighted,
- more insighted,
- wisest,
- most knowledgeable,
- more clearsighted,
- most percipient,
- most clearsighted,
- more gnostic,
- most gnostic,
- most clear-sighted,
- most clear sighted,
- gnostic,
- more percipient.
- dis satisfied,
- in-satiable,
- more malcontented,
- putout,
- most fretting,
- more irked,
- unfulfilled,
- dis appointed,
- dis-pleased,
- dis-affected,
- dis-satisfied,
- dis affected,
- be-grudging,
- most fed-up,
- un assuaged,
- un gratified,
- in satiable,
- dis-appointed,
- un appeased,
- more unappeased,
- more ennuied,
- unsatisfied,
- more grudging,
- most ennuied,
- more put out,
- more begrudging,
- most unsated,
- be grudging,
- fedup,
- most sniveling,
- more vexed,
- most put-out,
- most putout,
- dis pleased,
- most fed up,
- more ungratified,
- un-gratified,
- more unsated,
- most malcontented,
- un-assuaged,
- un sated,
- most unassuaged,
- most irked,
- un-sated,
- not satisfied,
- more putout,
- more sniveling,
- more fed-up,
- most unfulfilled,
- un-satisfied,
- most grudging,
- un satisfied,
- Fretting,
- more fretting,
- more fed up,
- un-fulfilled,
- most vexed,
- most put out,
- un fulfilled,
- un-appeased,
- most begrudging,
- more put-out,
- put-out,
- more fedup,
- more unfulfilled,
- most fedup,
- more unassuaged,
- most ungratified,
- most unappeased.
- ex cited,
- ex-cited,
- un-easier,
- un easiest,
- ex-citable,
- uneasy,
- up-tight,
- un easier,
- un-easy,
- ex citable,
- highstrung,
- over strung,
- up tight,
- overstrung,
- un easy,
- over-strung,
- most overstrung,
- excitable,
- ill ease,
- high strung,
- un-easiest,
- more overstrung.
- ex-positional,
- in-forming,
- most diagrammatic,
- dis cursive,
- more declarative,
- more expositional,
- more guiding,
- more justifying,
- supplementary,
- most justifying,
- most informing,
- most annotative,
- ex positional,
- more informing,
- more diagrammatic,
- most expositional,
- dis-cursive,
- in forming,
- most declarative,
- in-formative,
- in formative,
- most elucidatory,
- more elucidatory,
- most guiding,
- more exegetical,
- most exegetical,
- Justifying,
- more annotative.
- discriminating,
- prim,
- Qualmish,
- correct,
- perspicacious,
- over-nice,
- overnice,
- fussy,
- epicurean,
- squeamish,
- mincing,
- flawless,
- overdelicate,
- rigorous,
- careful,
- choosy,
- nit-picky,
- proper,
- dainty,
- diligent,
- conscientious,
- Stickling,
- persnickety,
- easily disgusted,
- priggish,
- meticulous,
- punctilious,
- methodical,
- precise,
- fussbudgety,
- accurate.
- belittling,
- critic,
- diagnostic,
- sharp,
- choleric,
- niggling,
- condemning,
- disapproving,
- lowering,
- cutting,
- humbling,
- Censuring,
- calumniatory,
- Exceptive,
- demeaning.
- un adulterated,
- more hairsplitting,
- un polluted,
- most hairline,
- most hairsplitting,
- trifling,
- un-adulterated,
- most fine spun,
- un-polluted,
- most enigmatic,
- most unpolluted,
- fine spun,
- most fine-spun,
- more fine-spun,
- more hairline,
- more unpolluted,
- more fine spun.
- worried,
- splenetic,
- fractious,
- wreckest,
- out sorts,
- short tempered,
- more splenetic,
- shorttempered,
- most splenetic.
- hyper-critical,
- more hair splitting,
- hyper critical,
- most hair splitting,
- most hair-splitting,
- hair-splitting,
- more hair-splitting,
- hair splitting.
- consequential,
- salient,
- big-wig,
- noteworthy,
- of moment,
- pivotal,
- of note,
- notable,
- high-powered,
- big-name,
- of substance,
- newsworthy,
- considerable,
- crucial,
- earthshaking,
- burning,
- big league,
- central,
- prominent,
- distinguished,
- mattering much,
- meaningful,
- far-reaching,
- world-shaking,
- major,
- eminent,
- influential.
- in congruous,
- more uncomplimentary,
- most double-edged,
- most doubleedged,
- more jibing,
- un complimentary,
- more doubleedged,
- more chaffing,
- in-congruous,
- most double edged,
- more double-edged,
- more backbiting,
- most jibing,
- most uncomplimentary,
- mordant,
- satiric,
- more satiric,
- most backbiting,
- double edged,
- doubleedged,
- wry,
- quick witted,
- more ironic,
- un-complimentary,
- more paradoxical,
- most ironical,
- most chaffing,
- more double edged,
- most paradoxical,
- quickwitted,
- mocking.
- earth-shaking,
- life and death,
- earth-shattering,
- of vital importance,
- vitally important,
- all-important,
- life or death,
- earthshattering.
- most bodacious,
- un-forgettable,
- more bodacious,
- most rubric,
- redletter,
- topdrawer,
- sur-passing,
- more doozie,
- A 1,
- sur passing,
- more surpassing,
- mind blowing,
- most surpassing,
- top-drawer,
- most doozie,
- extra-ordinary,
- un forgettable,
- most rememberable,
- red letter,
- more rememberable,
- mindblowing,
- more rubric,
- doozie.
- dis tasteful,
- beastlier,
- beastliest,
- dis-tasteful,
- un kinder,
- un kindest,
- un pleasant,
- un-kind,
- un kind,
- un-kindest,
- un-kinder,
- un-pleasant.
- more out of sorts,
- more cussed,
- more growling,
- more out-of-sorts,
- most growling,
- most out of sorts,
- most out-of-sorts,
- ogrer,
- most cussed,
- waspier,
- ogrest,
- waspiest.
- pro found,
- more penetrative,
- Sharp-witted,
- most penetrative,
- pro-founder,
- sharp witted,
- pro founder,
- sharpwitted,
- pro-found.
- hurry up,
- heaton,
- more hurryup,
- most high priority,
- more claiming,
- more heat on,
- more forcing,
- most forcing,
- more heat-on,
- most claiming,
- most highpriority,
- hurryup,
- most hurry-up,
- more high-priority,
- more highpriority,
- most heaton,
- more hurry up,
- heat on,
- most high-priority,
- most heat on,
- re quiring,
- more hurry-up,
- more high priority,
- more heaton,
- most hurryup,
- re-quiring,
- most hurry up,
- highpriority,
- most heat-on,
- high priority.
- Grumbly,
- whinier,
- whiny,
- out of sorts peevish,
- thin-skinned touchy,
- wailing,
- huffy irascible,
- whiniest.
- blunt,
- tart,
- chilly,
- icy,
- abrupt,
- intolerant,
- obdurate,
- rigid,
- puritanical,
- oppressive,
- short,
- effortful,
- stark,
- acrimonious,
- frosty,
- inflexible,
- imperial,
- brisk,
- acerbic,
- hidebound,
- spare,
- lean,
- bleak,
- intense,
- gruff,
- stiff-necked,
- strict,
- basic,
- curt,
- keen,
- crisp,
- dry,
- astringent,
- stringent,
- fundamental,
- brusque,
- uncompromising,
- raw,
- authoritarian,
- relentless,
- spartan,
- grim,
- dour,
- austere,
- ascetic,
- draconian,
- unbending,
- caustic,
- bad,
- piquant,
- disciplined,
- strait-laced,
- cool.
- having smarts,
- smart as a tack,
- quick on trigger,
- nobody's fool,
- quick on the uptake,
- quick on the trigger.
- more ulcerated,
- up-set,
- more grieved,
- most chafed,
- most reddened,
- un comfortable,
- most ulcerated,
- more grieving,
- pained,
- most stung,
- more stung,
- more bruised,
- most grieved,
- in flamed,
- most abscessed,
- more abscessed,
- un-comfortable,
- most bruised,
- most grieving,
- more hurting,
- more chafed,
- more reddened,
- in-flamed.
- most nitty gritty,
- under-lying,
- more nittygritty,
- most substratal,
- rootest,
- substratal,
- sub-stratal,
- more substratal,
- bottomline,
- sub stratal,
- most bottomline,
- more nitty gritty,
- nittygritty,
- more bottom line,
- most nitty-gritty,
- more bottomline,
- under lying,
- most nittygritty,
- nubbest,
- most bottom line,
- more nitty-gritty,
- most bottom-line,
- more bottom-line.
- most called-for,
- touch go,
- more impelling,
- most impelling,
- most toppriority,
- top priority,
- re-quired,
- more top priority,
- wanted,
- re quired,
- most called for,
- more calledfor,
- most top priority,
- calledfor,
- most calledfor,
- more called-for,
- toppriority,
- most demanded,
- most top-priority,
- more top-priority,
- more demanded,
- more toppriority,
- more called for.
- more life-or-death,
- more meat-and-potatoes,
- most meat-and-potatoes,
- most life-or-death,
- more meat and potatoes,
- more coal-and-ice,
- namest,
- most life or death,
- most name-of-the-game,
- more life or death,
- under-lined,
- most coal and ice,
- most underlined,
- more coal and ice,
- most meat and potatoes,
- most coal-and-ice,
- more underlined,
- coal and ice,
- more name of the game,
- under lined,
- most name of the game,
- more name-of-the-game.
n.
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- abstract,
- judging,
- nonconformist,
- popular,
- conceptual,
- perceptive,
- deterministic,
- observant,
- penetrating,
- judicious,
- orthodox,
- theoretical,
- analytical,
- utopian,
- metaphysical.
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- acrid,
- sarcastic,
- blistering,
- barbed,
- cynical,
- satirical,
- ad hominem,
- accusing,
- withering,
- acid,
- scolding,
- accusatory,
- hairsplitting,
- biting,
- nagging,
- flattering.
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- insightful,
- thoughtful,
- intellectual,
- smart,
- deductive,
- incisive,
- meditative,
- praise,
- sound,
- reasoned.
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- awkward,
- difficult,
- safety,
- trying,
- climacteric.
n. & a.
•deconstructionist (noun, adjective)Other synonyms:
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- insolvable,
- knackered,
- insupportable,
- black-and-blue,
- ironic,
- unfeasible,
- messy,
- insuperable,
- recalcitrant,
- insurmountable,
- battle-scarred,
- straitened,
- cut-up,
- gangrenous,
- intolerable,
- unbridgeable,
- much,
- onerous,
- faultfinding,
- swollen.
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- thorny,
- insoluble,
- explosive,
- punch-drunk,
- wounded,
- impossible,
- Punchy,
- ungovernable,
- unwieldy,
- injured,
- intractable,
- testing,
- Fiendish.
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- comfortable.
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- lame.
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- game.
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- heavy.
Paraphrases for Critical:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
crucial, vital, important, indispensable.
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Proper noun, singular
crucial, vital, important, indispensable.
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Adjective
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Forward Entailment
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Noun, plural
critics.
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Noun, plural
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Reverse Entailment
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Adjective
uncritical, self-critical, business-critical.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
imperative, difficult, severe, delicate, Criticised, integral, primordial, all-important, determinative, momentous, dire, seminal, principal, dramatic, precarious, foundational, overriding, challenging, problematic, sceptical, cardinal, capital, judgmental, compelling, controversial, extreme, Life-saving, key, skeptical, transcendental, conclusive, watershed, prominent, critical-use, influential, significant, strict, utmost, desperate, radical, stringent, embarrassing, cr, indispensible, make-or-break, harsh, resolute, invaluable, grim, definitive, pre-eminent, much-needed, accurate, alarming, ultimate, special, perilous, focal, fragile, tough, drastic, over-arching, tricky, inconclusive, tragic, formidable, absolutely, negative, life-threatening, intractable.
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Proper noun, singular
factors, essentials, attacks, Its, Policies, rips, adds, drivers, raps, key, significant.
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Noun, plural
Keys, commentators, reservations, reviewers, strictures, objects, essentials, criticises.
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Verb, past tense
Urged, developed, Criticised.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
Criticising, switching, boiling, speaking, questioning, ensuring, Sniping, challenging.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
paramount, instrumental, decisive.
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Noun, singular or mass
critic.
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Verb, past tense
instrumental.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
critiquing.
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Adjective
Antonyms for Critical:
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adj.
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noncritical, uncritical.
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fault-finding, detracting
complimentary, praising, trivial, unimportant, laudatory.
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Other antonyms:
extraneous, unneeded, dispensable, excess, stable, extra, undesired, needless, undemanding, inessential, safe, inconsequential, minor, negligible, charitable, forgiving, unnecessary, nonessential, superfluous, undiscriminating, surplus, external, incidental, unwanted, insignificant, unessential.
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