Synonyms for Critical:

• adj.

  •acute (adjective)
  • more acute,
  • more serious.
  •all (adjective)
  • critical.
  •big league (adjective)
  • playing hard ball,
  • front page,
  • front-page,
  • bigtime,
  • strictly business,
  • four-star,
  • high-power.
  •burning (adjective)
  • importunate,
  • instant.
  •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.
  •carping (adjective)
  • 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.
  •censorious (adjective)
  • 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.
  •climactic (adjective)
  • more climatical,
  • most climatical.
  •climactic/climacteric (adjective)
  • more climactical,
  • para mount,
  • para-mount,
  • peakest,
  • most climactical.
  •complaining (adjective)
  • 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.
  •critical (adjective)
  • disparaging,
  • pedantic,
  • Fault-finding,
  • harsh,
  • judgmental.
  •dangerous (adjective)
  • perilous,
  • parlous,
  • hazardous,
  • shaky,
  • dangersome,
  • on collision course,
  • risky,
  • portentous,
  • Jeopardous.
  •deciding (adjective)
  • more necessary.
  •decisive (adjective)
  • 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.
  •deconstructionist (adjective)
  • 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.
  •delicate (adjective)
  • 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.
  •demanding (adjective)
  • more backbreaker,
  • most backbreaker.
  •deprecative (adjective)
  • most deprecating,
  • de precative,
  • de-precative,
  • more deprecating.
  •deprecatory (adjective)
  • de precatory,
  • de-precatory.
  •derogatory (adjective)
  • 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.
  •desperate (adjective)
  • vehement.
  •detractive (adjective)
  • de tractive,
  • de-tractive.
  •discerning (adjective)
  • 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.
  •discriminating (adjective)
  • discerning.
  •dissatisfied (adjective)
  • 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.
  •edgy (adjective)
  • 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.
  •eventful (adjective)
  • out-standing.
  •exacting (adjective)
  • unsparing,
  • ex acting,
  • un sparing,
  • by book,
  • un-sparing,
  • ex-acting,
  • stern.
  •exigent (adjective)
  • needful.
  •explanatory (adjective)
  • 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.
  •expository (adjective)
  • Explicatory,
  • Disquisitional.
  •fastidious (adjective)
  • 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.
  •fateful (adjective)
  • Doomful,
  • Resultful,
  • inauspicious.
  •fault-finding, detracting (adjective)
  • belittling,
  • critic,
  • diagnostic,
  • sharp,
  • choleric,
  • niggling,
  • condemning,
  • disapproving,
  • lowering,
  • cutting,
  • humbling,
  • Censuring,
  • calumniatory,
  • Exceptive,
  • demeaning.
  •fine (adjective)
  • 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.
  •finical (adjective)
  • more overparticular,
  • chooseyest,
  • chooseyer,
  • finical,
  • over particular,
  • most overparticular.
  •finicky (adjective)
  • more fussbudget,
  • most fussbudget.
  •fretful (adjective)
  • worried,
  • splenetic,
  • fractious,
  • wreckest,
  • out sorts,
  • short tempered,
  • more splenetic,
  • shorttempered,
  • most splenetic.
  •grave (adjective)
  • feller,
  • fellest,
  • more killing,
  • most killing,
  • killing.
  •hard-to-please (adjective)
  • more scrutinizing,
  • most scrutinizing,
  • hard to please.
  •heavyweight (adjective)
  • heavyweight,
  • bluechip.
  •hermeneutic (adjective)
  • ex-positive,
  • more hermeneuti,
  • most hermeneuti,
  • ex positive.
  •hermeneutical (adjective)
  • more revealing,
  • most revealing.
  •hypercritical (adjective)
  • hyper-critical,
  • more hair splitting,
  • hyper critical,
  • most hair splitting,
  • most hair-splitting,
  • hair-splitting,
  • more hair-splitting,
  • hair splitting.
  •immediate (adjective)
  • nower,
  • up to date,
  • pre-sent,
  • at moment,
  • pre sent,
  • nowest.
  •imperative (adjective)
  • in escapable,
  • in-dispensable,
  • in-escapable,
  • in dispensable.
  •important (adjective)
  • 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.
  •interpretive (adjective)
  • Hermeneutical.
  •ironic/ironical (adjective)
  • 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.
  •irritable (adjective)
  • fretful.
  •life-and-death (adjective)
  • earth-shaking,
  • life and death,
  • earth-shattering,
  • of vital importance,
  • vitally important,
  • all-important,
  • life or death,
  • earthshattering.
  •life-threatening (adjective)
  • lifethreatening.
  •literal (adjective)
  • to the letter,
  • the letter,
  • not figurative,
  • unerring,
  • unexaggerated,
  • undeviating.
  •main (adjective)
  • pre eminent,
  • pre vailing,
  • stellar.
  •major (adjective)
  • more overshadowing,
  • over shadowing,
  • over-shadowing,
  • top-pest,
  • most overshadowing.
  •major-league (adjective)
  • majorleague,
  • more pre-eminent,
  • most pre eminent,
  • most pre-eminent,
  • more pre eminent.
  •memorable (adjective)
  • 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.
  •minute (adjective)
  • de-tailed,
  • most particularized,
  • most clocklike,
  • de tailed,
  • more particularized,
  • more clocklike.
  •momentous (adjective)
  • more epochal,
  • most epochal,
  • epochal.
  •nasty (adjective)
  • dis tasteful,
  • beastlier,
  • beastliest,
  • dis-tasteful,
  • un kinder,
  • un kindest,
  • un pleasant,
  • un-kind,
  • un kind,
  • un-kindest,
  • un-kinder,
  • un-pleasant.
  •nice (adjective)
  • be-coming,
  • wellbred,
  • well-bred,
  • well bred,
  • de-cent,
  • ex act,
  • be-fitting,
  • ex-act,
  • de cent.
  •particular (adjective)
  • choiciest,
  • more stickler,
  • most stickler,
  • choicier.
  •peevish (adjective)
  • 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.
  •penetrating (adjective)
  • pro found,
  • more penetrative,
  • Sharp-witted,
  • most penetrative,
  • pro-founder,
  • sharp witted,
  • pro founder,
  • sharpwitted,
  • pro-found.
  •pivotal (adjective)
  • most overruling,
  • over-ruling,
  • over-riding,
  • more overruling,
  • over ruling,
  • over riding.
  •pressing (adjective)
  • 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.
  •querulous (adjective)
  • Grumbly,
  • whinier,
  • whiny,
  • out of sorts peevish,
  • thin-skinned touchy,
  • wailing,
  • huffy irascible,
  • whiniest.
  •scrupulous (adjective)
  • more conscionable,
  • most conscionable.
  •severe (adjective)
  • 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.
  •sharp (adjective)
  • having smarts,
  • smart as a tack,
  • quick on trigger,
  • nobody's fool,
  • quick on the uptake,
  • quick on the trigger.
  •sore (adjective)
  • 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.
  •ticklish (adjective)
  • un steadier,
  • un-steadiest,
  • un-steadier,
  • in-constant,
  • un steady,
  • un steadiest.
  •tight (adjective)
  • up setting,
  • up-setting.
  •trenchant (adjective)
  • to the point,
  • clear cut,
  • the point,
  • razor-sharp.
  •tricky (adjective)
  • un dependable,
  • un-dependable,
  • quirky.
  •twitchy (adjective)
  • a bundle nerves.
  •underlying (adjective)
  • 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.
  •unflattering (adjective)
  • un flattering,
  • un-flattering.
  •urgent (adjective)
  • 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.
  •urgently important (adjective)
  • conclusive,
  • hairy,
  • integral,
  • precarious,
  • determinative.
  •vital (adjective)
  • 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.
  •weighty (adjective)
  • nononsense.

• n.

  •
  • abstract,
  • judging,
  • nonconformist,
  • popular,
  • conceptual,
  • perceptive,
  • deterministic,
  • observant,
  • penetrating,
  • judicious,
  • orthodox,
  • theoretical,
  • analytical,
  • utopian,
  • metaphysical.
  •
  • acrid,
  • sarcastic,
  • blistering,
  • barbed,
  • cynical,
  • satirical,
  • ad hominem,
  • accusing,
  • withering,
  • acid,
  • scolding,
  • accusatory,
  • hairsplitting,
  • biting,
  • nagging,
  • flattering.
  •
  • insightful,
  • thoughtful,
  • intellectual,
  • smart,
  • deductive,
  • incisive,
  • meditative,
  • praise,
  • sound,
  • reasoned.
  •
  • frail,
  • value,
  • unfit,
  • infectious,
  • failing,
  • ill,
  • sick,
  • worse,
  • unhealthy,
  • fragile,
  • unwell.
  •
  • awkward,
  • difficult,
  • safety,
  • trying,
  • climacteric.
  •appraising (noun)
  • appraising.
  •captious (noun)
  • captious.
  •caviling (noun)
  • caviling.
  •critical (noun)
  • grievous,
  • discriminative,
  • evaluative,
  • indispensable,
  • nitpicking,
  • pettifogging,
  • quibbling,
  • serious,
  • judicial,
  • supercritical,
  • severe,
  • vituperative.
  •crucial (noun)
  • significant.

• n. & a.

  •deconstructionist (noun, adjective)
  • most demythifying,
  • reinterpretings,
  • most debunking.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • insolvable,
  • knackered,
  • insupportable,
  • black-and-blue,
  • ironic,
  • unfeasible,
  • messy,
  • insuperable,
  • recalcitrant,
  • insurmountable,
  • battle-scarred,
  • straitened,
  • cut-up,
  • gangrenous,
  • intolerable,
  • unbridgeable,
  • much,
  • onerous,
  • faultfinding,
  • swollen.
  •
  • thorny,
  • insoluble,
  • explosive,
  • punch-drunk,
  • wounded,
  • impossible,
  • Punchy,
  • ungovernable,
  • unwieldy,
  • injured,
  • intractable,
  • testing,
  • Fiendish.
  •
  • elusive,
  • unrelenting,
  • inaccessible,
  • battered,
  • hypersensitive,
  • gnarly.
  •
  • comfortable.
  •
  • lame.
  •
  • game.
  •
  • gray,
  • shot.
  •
  • heavy.
  •historic
  • memorable.
  •hypercritical
  • ultracritical.
  •ill-tempered
  • cross.
  •naive
  • trusting.
  •urgent
  • imperious.

Paraphrases for Critical:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    crucial, vital, important, indispensable.
  • Proper noun, singular
    crucial, vital, important, indispensable.

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, plural
    critics.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Adjective
    uncritical, self-critical, business-critical.

• Independent

  • 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.
  • Proper noun, singular
    factors, essentials, attacks, Its, Policies, rips, adds, drivers, raps, key, significant.
  • Noun, plural
    Keys, commentators, reservations, reviewers, strictures, objects, essentials, criticises.
  • Verb, past tense
    Urged, developed, Criticised.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Criticising, switching, boiling, speaking, questioning, ensuring, Sniping, challenging.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    writes, headlines, depends, discusses, counts, offers, criticises.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    paramount, instrumental, decisive.
  • Proper noun, singular
    critic, critics, decisive.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    critic.
  • Verb, past tense
    instrumental.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    critiquing.

Antonyms for Critical:

• adj.

  • all
    noncritical, uncritical.
  • fault-finding, detracting
    complimentary, praising, trivial, unimportant, laudatory.
  • urgently important
    secure, sure, certain.
  • 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.

Homophones for Critical:

• cardiac cycle, cortisol, courteously, critically, cortical.