Critical synonyms

95 synonyms for critical such as compelling, bellyaching, analytic, acute, all-important, and climacteric. Critical is an adjective, and its antonyms are complimentary, safe, and unimportant.

Another word for critical

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, reprobative, reprobatory, reproving, scathing, ultra-critical, unfavourable, unsympathetic, and whingeing.

2. evaluative

Analytic, analytical, commentative, elucidative, evaluative, explanatory, explicative, expository, and interpretative.

3. grave

Acute, chancy, dangerous, desperate, dicey, dire, dodgy, egregious, grave, hairy, hazardous, iffy, in the balance, life-and-death, life-threatening, parlous, peracute, perilous, precarious, profound, risky, serious, touch-and-go, uncertain, and very bad.

4. crucial

All-important, climacteric, compelling, crucial, deciding, decisive, essential, exigent, fundamental, high-priority, important, key, momentous, of great consequence, of the essence, of the utmost importance, paramount, pivotal, pre-eminent, pressing, serious, urgent, and vital.

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