Critical, Critically

Critical is an adverb meaning

1. marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws

The opposite [antonym] is uncritical.

2. The point in time when or at which a something (or property or phenomenon) experiences or exhibits or shows an abrupt or sharp or quick change, as in the phrase

"critical mass for an atomic reaction"

The opposite [antonym] is noncritical.

3. Characterized by careful evaluation and judgment, as in the phrase

"a critical analysis of your writing!"

The opposite [antonym] is uncritical

4. Something that is urgently needed; absolutely necessary

A synonym would be vital

5: Creating or having the nature of a changing point or turning point or crisis

A synonym would be decisive

Critically is an adverb meaning

1. In a critical manner

2. At a critical time

3. At/during a crisis

Related noun: criticism

Synonyms:

abstruse, accurate, acute, alarming, allegorizing, annotative, appreciative, arduous, attentive, bad, basic, belittling, brutal, captious, carping, caviling, censorious,
charged, choicy, choosy, clamorous, clarifying, climacteric, close, commentative, compelling, complex, conclusive, conscientious, consequential, correct, critic, crucial, crying,
cynical, dangerous, dangersome, decisive, delicate, demanding, demeaning, demonstrative, demythologizing, deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciating, depreciative, depreciatory,
desperate, detailed, determinative, differential, difficult, dire, discerning, discoursive, discriminate, discriminating, discriminative, disparaging, dissertational, distinctive, distinguishing, editorial, elucidative, emergent, enlightening, essayistic, essential, euhemeristic, exact, exacting, exegetic, exemplificative, exigent, explaining, explanatory, explicative, explicatory, explosive, expositive, expositorial, expository, exquisite, fastidious, faultfinding, fine, finical, finicky, formidable, fraught with danger, fussy, glossarial, grave, hairsplitting,
hairy, hard, hard-earned, hard-fought, high-pressure, high-priority, humbling, hypercritical, illuminating, illuminative, illustrative, imperative, imperious, important, insistent, instant, intricate, jawbreaking, jeopardous, judgmental, judgmental, judicative, judicial, judiciary, judicious, key, knotted, knotty, laborious, loaded, lowering, mean, menacing, meticulous, minute, momentous, monographic, nagging, narrow, nice, niggling, no picnic, not easy, on slippery ground, on thin ice, overcritical, parlous, particular, penetrating, perfectionistic, perilous, picky, pivotal, precarious, precise, pregnant, pressing, priggish, prudish, punctilious, punctual, puristic, puritanic, quibbling, rationalistic, rationalizing, refined, religious, rigid, rigorous, rough, rugged, scrupulous, scrutinizing, selective, sensitive, serious, set with thorns, severe, significant, slippery, slippy, spiny, steep, strenuous, strict, subtle, tactful, thorny, threatening, ticklish, toilsome, touch-and-go, touchy, tough,

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