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, major, material, momentous, never to be forgotten, notable, of decisive importance, of great consequence, of importance, of vital importance, outstanding, overruling, overshadowing, paramount, pivotal, pressing, primary, principal, prominent, serious, significant, solemn, strategic, substantial, turning, urgent, vital, weighty
associated concepts: critical stage of a trial
II
(faultfinding) adjective
accusing, blaming, captious, carping, castigating, caustic, caviling, censorious, censuring, chiding, choleric, comminatory, condemnatory, condemning, criminative, criminatory, criticizing severely, cynical, damnatory, defamatory, denunciatory, derogatory, disapproving, elegans, exacting, hard upon, hardhitting, hypercritical, inclined to judge with severity, nagging, objecting, objurgatory, overcritical, rebuking, recriminative, reprehensive, reproachful, reprobative, reproving, scarifying, scathing, scolding, severe, taunting, ultracritical, uncomplimentary, upbraiding
III
index
acute, crucial, cynical, decisive, discriminating (judicious), essential (required), exigent, grave (important), imperative, important (urgent), indispensable, key, material (important), momentous, necessary (required), nonconsenting, particular (exacting), pejorative, precarious, precise, remonstrative, sensitive (discerning), serious (grave), severe, strategic, urgent, vital
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006