Definition of critical

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Critical (n.) Inclined to criticise or find fault; fastidious; captious; censorious; exacting.

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Climacteric :: Climacteric (n.) A period in human life in which some great change is supposed to take place in the constitution. The critical periods are thought by some to be the years produced by multiplying 7 into the odd numbers 3, 5, 7, and 9; to which others add the 81st year..
Criticalness :: Criticalness (n.) The state or quality of being critical, or of occurring at a critical time..
Recension :: Recension (n.) Specifically, the review of a text (as of an ancient author) by an editor; critical revisal and establishment..
Dissection :: Dissection (n.) Fig.: The act of separating or dividing for the purpose of critical examination.
Tartufe :: Tartufe (n.) A hypocritical devotee. See the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.
Delicacy :: Delicacy (a.) Nice and refined perception and discrimination; critical niceness; fastidious accuracy.
Climacteric :: Climacteric (a.) Relating to a climacteric; critical.
Review :: Review (n.) To go over and examine critically or deliberately.
Canter :: Canter (n.) One who makes hypocritical pretensions to goodness; one who uses canting language.
Skepticism :: Skepticism (n.) The doctrine that no fact or principle can be certainly known; the tenet that all knowledge is uncertain; Pyrrohonism; universal doubt; the position that no fact or truth, however worthy of confidence, can be established on philosophical grounds; critical investigation or inquiry, as opposed to the positive assumption or assertion of certain principles..
Recension :: Recension (n.) The result of such a work; a text established by critical revision; an edited version.
Sanctimony :: Sanctimony (n.) Holiness; devoutness; scrupulous austerity; sanctity; especially, outward or artificial saintliness; assumed or pretended holiness; hypocritical devoutness..
Critical :: Critical (n.) Inclined to criticise or find fault; fastidious; captious; censorious; exacting.
Hypercritic :: Hypercritic (a.) Hypercritical.
Emendator :: Emendator (n.) One who emends or critically edits.
Insincerity :: Insincerity (n.) The quality of being insincere; want of sincerity, or of being in reality what one appears to be; dissimulation; hypocritical; deceitfulness; hollowness; untrustworthiness; as, the insincerity of a professed friend; the insincerity of professions of regard..
False :: False (superl.) Not genuine or real; assumed or designed to deceive; counterfeit; hypocritical; as, false tears; false modesty; false colors; false jewelry..
Critical :: Critical (n.) Qualified to criticise, or pass judgment upon, literary or artistic productions..
Juncture :: "Juncture (n.) A point of time; esp., one made critical or important by a concurrence of circumstances; hence, a crisis; an exigency..
Assumed :: Assumed (a.) Pretended; hypocritical; make-believe; as, an assumed character..
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