Compelling, bellyaching, analytic, acute, all-important, and climacteric are all synonyms for critical. Complimentary, safe, and unimportant are these antonyms of critical. And here are another 95 synonyms for critical.
Critical Synonyms
1. censorious
- Bellyaching
- Bitching
- Carping
- Castigatory
- Cavilling
- Censorious
- Condemnatory
- Condemning
- Criticizing
- Denunciatory
- Deprecatory
- Disapproving
- Disparaging
- Fault-finding
- Griping
- Hair-splitting
- Hypercritical
- Judgemental
- Negative
- Niggling
- Nitpicking
- Overcritical
- Pass-remarkable
- Pedantic
- Pernickety
- Persnickety
- Pettifogging
- Picky
- Quibbling
- Reprobatory
- Reproving
- Scathing
- Ultra-critical
- Unfavourable
- Unsympathetic
- Whingeing
- Reprobative
2. evaluative
- Analytic
- Analytical
- Commentative
- Evaluative
- Explanatory
- Explicative
- Expository
- Interpretative
- Elucidative
3. grave
- Acute
- Chancy
- Dangerous
- Desperate
- Dicey
- Dire
- Dodgy
- Grave
- Hairy
- Hazardous
- Iffy
- In the balance
- Life-and-death
- Life-threatening
- Parlous
- Peracute
- Perilous
- Precarious
- Profound
- Risky
- Serious
- Touch-and-go
- Uncertain
- Very bad
- Egregious
4. crucial
- All-important
- Climacteric
- Compelling
- Crucial
- Deciding
- Decisive
- Essential
- Fundamental
- High-priority
- Important
- Key
- Momentous
- Of great consequence
- Of the essence
- Of the utmost importance
- Paramount
- Pivotal
- Pre-eminent
- Pressing
- Serious
- Urgent
- Vital
- Exigent