| acritical | (adjective) without a crisis (as of some diseases) | - |
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| alacritous | (adjective) quick and eager | - |
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| alacrity | (noun) liveliness and eagerness | Synonyms: briskness, smartness |
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| crit | (noun) a bicycle race held on a short course (usually less than 5 km or 3 miles) | Synonyms: criterium |
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| criterial | (adjective) serving as a basis for evaluation | Synonyms: criterional |
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| criterion | (noun) the ideal in terms of which something can be judged | Synonyms: standard |
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| (noun) a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated | Synonyms: measure, standard, touchstone |
| criterional | (adjective) serving as a basis for evaluation | Synonyms: criterial |
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| criterium | (noun) a bicycle race held on a short course (usually less than 5 km or 3 miles) | Synonyms: crit |
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| crith | (noun) the weight of a liter of hydrogen (at 0 centigrade and 760 millimeters pressure) | - |
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| critic | (noun) a person who is professionally engaged in the analysis and interpretation of works of art | - |
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| (noun) anyone who expresses a reasoned judgment of something | - |
| (noun) someone who frequently finds fault or makes harsh and unfair judgments | - |
| critical | (adjective) marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by careful evaluation and judgment | - |
| (adjective) being in or verging on a state of crisis or emergency | - |
| (adjective) at or of a point at which a property or phenomenon suffers an abrupt change especially having enough mass to sustain a chain reaction | - |
| (adjective) of or involving or characteristic of critics or criticism | - |
| (adjective) forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis | Synonyms: decisive |
| (adjective) urgently needed; absolutely necessary | Synonyms: vital |
| criticality | (noun) a state of critical urgency | Synonyms: criticalness, cruciality |
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| (noun) a critical state; especially the point at which a nuclear reaction is self-sustaining | - |
| critically | (adverb) in a critical manner | - |
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| criticalness | (noun) a state of critical urgency | Synonyms: criticality, cruciality |
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| criticise | (verb) find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws | Synonyms: criticize, knock, pick apart |
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| (verb) act as a critic | Synonyms: criticize |
| criticism | (noun) a serious examination and judgment of something | Synonyms: critique |
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| (noun) disapproval expressed by pointing out faults or shortcomings | Synonyms: unfavorable judgment |
| (noun) a written evaluation of a work of literature | Synonyms: literary criticism |
| criticize | (verb) find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws | Synonyms: criticise, knock, pick apart |
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| (verb) act as a critic | Synonyms: criticise |
| critique | (noun) a serious examination and judgment of something | Synonyms: criticism |
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| (noun) an essay or article that gives a critical evaluation (as of a book or play) | Synonyms: critical review, review, review article |
| (verb) appraise critically | Synonyms: review |
| critter | (noun) a regional term for `creature' (especially for domestic animals) | - |
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| diacritic | (adjective) capable of distinguishing | Synonyms: diacritical |
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| (noun) a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation | Synonyms: diacritical mark |
| diacritical | (adjective) capable of distinguishing | Synonyms: diacritic |
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| escritoire | (noun) a desk used for writing | Synonyms: secretaire, secretary, writing table |
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| haematocrit | (noun) a measuring instrument to determine (usually by centrifugation) the relative amounts of corpuscles and plasma in the blood | Synonyms: hematocrit |
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| (noun) the ratio of the volume occupied by packed red blood cells to the volume of the whole blood as measured by a hematocrit | Synonyms: hematocrit, packed cell volume |
| hematocrit | (noun) a measuring instrument to determine (usually by centrifugation) the relative amounts of corpuscles and plasma in the blood | Synonyms: haematocrit |
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| (noun) the ratio of the volume occupied by packed red blood cells to the volume of the whole blood as measured by a hematocrit | Synonyms: haematocrit, packed cell volume |
| hypercritical | (adjective) inclined to judge too severely | Synonyms: overcritical |
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| hypercriticism | (noun) Excessive or unfairly harsh criticism. | - |
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| hypocrite | (noun) a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives | Synonyms: dissembler, dissimulator, phoney, phony, pretender |
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| hypocritical | (adjective) professing feelings or virtues one does not have | - |
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| hypocritically | (adverb) in a hypocritical manner | - |
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| mediocrity | (noun) ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding | Synonyms: averageness |
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| (noun) a person of second-rate ability or value | Synonyms: second-rater |
| neocriticism | (noun) a form of neo-Kantianism developed principally by C. B. Renouvier and his followers rejecting the noumena of Kant and restricting knowledge to phenomena as constituted by a priori categories. | - |
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| noncritical | (adjective) not in a state of crisis or emergency | Synonyms: noncrucial |
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| (adjective) not critical; not at a point of abrupt change | - |
| (adjective) marked by disregard for critical standards or procedures | Synonyms: uncritical |
| overcritical | (adjective) inclined to judge too severely | Synonyms: hypercritical |
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| supercritical | (adjective) (especially of fissionable material) able to sustain a chain reaction in such a manner that the rate of reaction increases | - |
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| uncritical | (adjective) not critical; not tending to find or call attention to errors | - |
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| (adjective) marked by disregard for critical standards or procedures | Synonyms: noncritical |
| uncritically | (adverb) in an uncritical manner | - |
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