Find your perfect word!

Definition critical

Etymology

From the suffix -al and Latin criticus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (kritikós, “of or for judging, able to discern”) < ????? (krín?, “I separate, judge”); also the root of crisis.

Adjective

critical (comparative more critical, superlative most critical)

1. Inclined to find fault or criticize
2. Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis or turning point.
3. Extremely important.
4. Relating to criticism or careful analysis, such as literary or film criticism.
5. (medicine) Of a patient condition involving unstable vital signs and a prognosis that predicts the condition could worsen; or, a patient condition that requires urgent treatment in an intensive care or critical care medical facility.
6. Likely to go out of control if disturbed, that is, opposite of stable.
7. (physics) Of the point (in temperature, reagent concentration etc.) where a nuclear or chemical reaction becomes self-sustaining.
8. (physics) Of a temperature that is equal to the temperature of the critical point of a substance, i.e. the temperature above which the substance cannot be liquefied.

Noun

critical (plural criticals)

1. A critical value, factor, etc.
2. In breakdancing, a kind of airflare move in which the dancer hops from one hand to the other.

Results 208 Words with the letters CRITICAL

You can also try words with the phrase CRITICAL, words starting with the letters CRITICAL, or words ending in the letters CRITICAL.

Favorites Searches

Words… ending with q, starting with q, starting with qa, starting with qo, with two letters, starting with x, starting with j, ending with j,

Some random searches: Words with the letters BXBE, Words with the letters WUK, Words with the letters FJE, Words with the letters RPA,