critical

• marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws
• at or of a point at which a property or phenomenon suffers an abrupt change especially having enough mass to sustain a chain reaction
• characterized by careful evaluation and judgment
• urgently needed
• forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis
• being in or verging on a state of crisis or emergency
• of or involving or characteristic of critics or criticism
• Qualified to criticise, or pass judgment upon, literary or artistic productions
• Pertaining to criticism or the critic´s art
• Inclined to make nice distinctions, or to exercise careful judgment and selection
• Inclined to criticise or find fault
• Characterized by thoroughness and a reference to principles, as becomes a critic
• Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis, turning point, or specially important juncture

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