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1critical — crit|i|cal [ krıtıkl ] adjective *** ▸ 1 saying when something is wrong ▸ 2 very important ▸ 3 difficult to deal with ▸ 4 seriously sick/injured ▸ 5 according to critics ▸ 6 considering carefully ▸ 7 at level something happens ▸ + PHRASES 1. )… …
2critical — / krItIkFl/ adjective 1 MAKING SEVERE JUDGMENTS someone who is critical makes severe and often unfair judgments of people or things: I don t mean to be over critical, but isn t all of this completely unnecessary? (+ of): Pat is always very… …
3critical */*/*/ — UK [ˈkrɪtɪk(ə)l] / US adjective 1) expressing an opinion when you think something is wrong or bad Her father was a very critical man. He gave a highly critical speech. critical of: People have been critical of the way she has handled the affair.… …
4critical — crit|i|cal W2S2 [ˈkrıtıkəl] adj ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(criticizing)¦ 2¦(important)¦ 3¦(serious/worrying)¦ 4¦(ill)¦ 5 the critical list 6¦(making judgments)¦ 7¦(art/literature)¦ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1.) ¦(CRITICIZING)¦ if you are critical, you criticize s …
5critical — [[t]krɪ̱tɪk(ə)l[/t]] ♦♦ 1) ADJ GRADED A critical time, factor, or situation is extremely important. The incident happened at a critical point in the campaign... Environmentalists say a critical factor in the city s pollution is its population...… …
6critical — adj. 1 a making or involving adverse or censorious comments or judgements. b expressing or involving criticism. 2 skilful at or engaged in criticism. 3 providing textual criticism (a critical edition of Milton). 4 a of or at a crisis; involving… …
7Critical thinking — is the process or method of thinking that questions assumptions. It is a way of deciding whether a claim is true, false, or sometimes true and sometimes false, or partly true and partly false. The origins of critical thinking can be traced in… …
8Critical pedagogy — Major works Pedagogy of the Oppressed …
9Critical Infrastructure Protection — or CIP is a national program to assure the security of vulnerable and interconnected infrastructures of the United States. In May 1998, President Bill Clinton issued Presidential directive PDD 63 [ [http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/pdd/pdd 63.htm… …
10critical — 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,… …
