critical

critical
01. It is [critical] that society look after the homeless, especially in winter.
02. Her father was [critically] injured in a car accident.
03. Coffee is [critical] to the economy of Ethiopia, with exports of some $260 million in 2000.
04. The economy of Greenland is [critically] dependent on exports of fish, and substantial support from the Danish Government, which supplies about half of government revenues.
05. The Battle of the Plains of Abraham was a [critical] moment in the history of Canada.
06. This next speech could be a [critical] point in the presidential campaign.
07. Diversifying our clientele is [critical] to our business plan.
08. The country is suffering from a [critical] shortage of skilled labor.
09. One man is dead, and another [critically] injured following a fight in a downtown bar.
10. The driver of the car that crashed into a telephone poll is said to be in [critical] condition.
11. The boss was very [critical] of the report, and wants it revised.
12. Gustave LeBon believed that in crowds, individuals lose their [critical] faculties, rendering them suggestible and easily manipulated.
13. The President made remarks which were [critical] of his running mate during the campaign.
14. Bernard Malamud once said that a writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly [critical] eye.
15. Louis Brandeis once stated that anyone who [critically] analyzes a business learns this: that the success or failure of an enterprise depends usually upon one man.
16. John Fowles once said that duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is [critical].
17. Donald Rumsfeld once suggested that it isn't making mistakes that's [critical]; it's correcting them, and getting on with the principal task.
18. Benjamin Disraeli once remarked, "How much easier it is to be [critical] than to be correct."
19. Lloyd Provost once said that creative thinking should be viewed as an essential supplement to, though not a replacement for, [critical] thinking.
20. Biological activity in your brain plays a [critical] role in processes involving thinking, acting and feeling.

Grammatical examples in English. 2013.

Игры ⚽ Поможем написать реферат
Synonyms:
, , / , , , / , , , , / , , , , , ,


Look at other dictionaries:

  • Critical — Crit ic*al (kr[i^]t [i^]*kal), a. [See {Critic}, n., {Crisis}.] [1913 Webster] 1. Qualified to criticise, or pass judgment upon, literary or artistic productions. [1913 Webster] It is submitted to the judgment of more critical ears to direct and… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • critical — UK US /ˈkrɪtɪkəl/ adjective ► extremely important to the progress or success of something: critical to/for sth »Logistics and distribution are critical to an e commerce venture s success. »Critical decisions need to be taken. »We see this as a… …   Financial and business terms

  • critical — 1 Critical, hypercritical, faultfinding, captious, caviling, carping, censorious are comparable when they mean exhibiting the spirit of one who detects and points out faults or defects. Critical, when applied to persons who judge and to their… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • critical — [krit′i kəl] adj. 1. tending to find fault; censorious 2. characterized by careful analysis and judgment [a sound critical estimate of the problem] 3. of critics or criticism 4. of or forming a crisis or turning point; decisive 5. dangerous or… …   English World dictionary

  • critical — 1580s, censorious, from CRITIC (Cf. critic) + AL (Cf. al) (1). Meaning pertaining to criticism is from 1741; medical sense is from c.1600; meaning of the nature of a crisis is from 1640s; that of crucial is from 1841, from the decisive sense in L …   Etymology dictionary

  • critical — I (crucial) adjective acute, anceps, chief, climacteric, climactic, commanding, considerable, deciding, decisive, determining, dubius, essential, eventful, exigent, far reaching, fateful, foremost, grave, imperative, important, imposing, key,… …   Law dictionary

  • critical — [adj1] fault finding, detracting analytical, belittling, biting, calumniatory, captious, carping, caviling, cavillous, censorious, censuring, choleric, condemning, critic, cutting, cynical, demanding, demeaning, derogatory, diagnostic,… …   New thesaurus

  • critical — ► ADJECTIVE 1) expressing adverse or disapproving comments or judgements. 2) expressing or involving an analysis of the merits and faults of a literary or artistic work. 3) having a decisive importance in the success or failure of something;… …   English terms dictionary

  • critical — crit|i|cal W2S2 [ˈkrıtıkəl] adj ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(criticizing)¦ 2¦(important)¦ 3¦(serious/worrying)¦ 4¦(ill)¦ 5 the critical list 6¦(making judgments)¦ 7¦(art/literature)¦ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1.) ¦(CRITICIZING)¦ if you are critical, you criticize s …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • critical — [[t]krɪ̱tɪk(ə)l[/t]] ♦♦ 1) ADJ GRADED A critical time, factor, or situation is extremely important. The incident happened at a critical point in the campaign... Environmentalists say a critical factor in the city s pollution is its population...… …   English dictionary

  • critical — adjective Date: 1547 1. a. of, relating to, or being a turning point or specially important juncture < a critical phase >: as (1) relating to or being the stage of a disease at which an abrupt change for better or worse may be expected; also… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
… Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”