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What is the adjective for critically?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs critic, criticize, critique and criticise which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

critical
  1. Inclined to find fault or criticize; fastidious; captious; censorious; exacting.
  2. Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis or turning point.
  3. Extremely important.
  4. Relating to criticism or careful analysis, such as literary or film criticism.
  5. (medicine) Of a patient condition involving unstable vital signs and a prognosis that predicts the condition could worsen; or, a patient condition that requires urgent treatment in an intensive care or critical care medical facility.
  6. Likely to go out of control if disturbed, that is, opposite of stable.
  7. (physics) Of the point (in temperature, reagent concentration etc.) where a nuclear or chemical reaction becomes self-sustaining.
  8. (physics) Of a temperature that is equal to the temperature of the critical point of a substance, i.e. the temperature above which the substance cannot be liquefied.
  9. Synonyms:
      10. censorious, condemnatory, condemning, castigatory, reproving, denunciatory, deprecatory, disparaging, disapproving, scathing, criticising, criticizing, fault-finding, judgemental, negative, unfavourable, unsympathetic, hypercritical, overcritical, pedantic, pettifogging, cavilling, carping, quibbling, niggling, nitpicking, pernickety, picky, belittling, calumniatory, cavillous, censuring, cutting, cynical, griping, hairsplitting, unfavorable, bellyaching, captious, caviling, faultfinding, judgmental, rejective, whingeing, derogatory, reprobatory, reprobative, nit-picking, nit-picky, pass-remarkable … more
  10. Examples:
      11. “The integrity unit's findings were highly critical of the club's handling of the salary cap.”
      “The movie had widespread critical acclaim and it was unsurprising it had received so many awards leading up to the Oscars.”
      “I would prefer you to be brutally honest and highly critical of my work.”
criticproof
  1. Resistant to negative responses from critics.
  2. Examples:
      3. “The fourth Naked Brothers movie, which will be shown on Nickelodeon Friday night, is clumsy but criticproof.”
criticisable
  1. Alternative form of criticizable
  2. Examples:
      3. “Thus, among many other consequences, theories should aim at being very clear and criticisable so that they can, if need be, be proven wrong.”
      “I am not persuaded that, although it could have been made quicker, the period of time was in fact so long as to constitute criticisable delay.”
      “He was arguably coloured by notions of lack of consensus between the parties and is criticisable today.”
criticizable
  1. Able to be criticized.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. inexcusable, reprehensible, disgraceful, unforgivable, indefensible, deplorable, outrageous, unjustifiable, unpardonable, wrong, unacceptable, unreasonable, intolerable, unwarrantable, insupportable, unworthy, unwarranted, unjustified, unconscionable, blameworthy, inexpiable, gratuitous, censurable, regrettable, unprovoked, blamable, untenable, unallowable, unpermissible, impermissible, impolite, rude, uncalled-for, without justification, without cause, without reason … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “One account characterizes autonomy as a moral notion: choices with criticizable moral contents are deemed nonautonomous.”
      “They had focussed on us as a target, and even though there was this highly criticizable situation with the chickens they didn't care.”
      “In this case a criticizable attitude is indicated by your act.”
critiquable
  1. Able to be critiqued.
criticked
  1. simple past tense and past participle of critic
criticking
  1. present participle of critic
criticized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of criticize
  2. Synonyms:
      3. censured, condemned, knocked, panned, denounced, blasted, disparaged, slammed, lambasted, arraigned, attacked, pilloried, roasted, besmirched, denigrated, deprecated, maligned, slated, vilified, castigated, dissed, excoriated, faulted, hammered, slurred, chastised, flamed, fustigated, mauled, reprehended, savaged, skewered, trashed, bashed, carped, chid, chided, crucified, lashed, pummelled, pummeled, reprobated, rubbished, bagged, blamed, decried, dispraised, objurgated, rated, reprimanded … more
criticizing
  1. present participle of criticize
  2. Synonyms:
      3. censuring, condemning, knocking, panning, denouncing, blasting, disparaging, slamming, lambasting, arraigning, attacking, pillorying, roasting, besmirching, denigrating, deprecating, maligning, slating, vilifying, castigating, dissing, excoriating, faulting, hammering, slurring, chastising, flaming, fustigating, mauling, reprehending, savaging, skewering, trashing, bashing, carping, chiding, crucifying, lashing, pummelling, pummeling, reprobating, rubbishing, bagging, blaming, decrying, dispraising, objurgating, rating, reprimanding, reproving … more
critiqued
  1. simple past tense and past participle of critique
  2. Synonyms:
      3. assessed, evaluated, appraised, reviewed, criticised, criticized, commented, judged, studied, put down, read through, discussed, analysed, analyzed, scrutinized, probed, examined, interpreted, nitpicked, weighed, scrutinised, rated, bad-mouthed, slammed, commented on, reedited, trashed, knocked, ripped, corrected, raved, panned, zapped, given opinion, gave opinion, commented upon, passed judgment on, weighed up, LoCced, remarked, skinned alive, letterhacked, gave an opinion, given an opinion, gave your opinion of, took down, taken down, written a critique, swung at, wrote up … more
critiquing
  1. present participle of critique
  2. Synonyms:
      3. assessing, evaluating, appraising, reviewing, criticising, criticizing, commenting, judging, studying, giving opinion, analyzing, scrutinizing, analysing, letterhacking, remarking, LoCcing, examining, probing, interpreting, nitpicking, discussing, scrutinising, weighing, giving an opinion, commenting upon, passing judgment on, rating, zapping, knocking, ripping, slamming, commenting on, trashing, bad-mouthing, raving, reediting, panning, correcting, skinning alive, taking down, reading through, swipeing at, writing a critique of, putting down, writing up, weighing up, writing a critique, giving your opinion of, looking at, treating … more
criticised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of criticise
  2. Synonyms:
      3. trashed, attacked, knocked, savaged, abused, condemned, insulted, lambasted, panned, slammed, censured, criticized, flayed, hammered, roasted, rubbished, bashed, crucified, slated, bad-mouthed, assailed, belaboured, belabored, blasted, castigated, excoriated, mauled, potshotted, scathed, vituperated, pummelled, pummeled, took, taken, jumped on, pulled apart, took apart, taken apart, slagged off, threw brickbats at, thrown brickbats at, took to pieces, taken to pieces, gave a bad press to, given a bad press to … more
criticising
  1. present participle of criticise
  2. Synonyms:
      3. trashing, attacking, knocking, savaging, abusing, condemning, insulting, lambasting, panning, slamming, censuring, criticizing, flaying, hammering, roasting, rubbishing, bashing, crucifying, slating, bad-mouthing, assailing, belabouring, belaboring, blasting, castigating, excoriating, mauling, potshotting, scathing, vituperating, pummelling, pummeling, taking, jumping on, pulling apart, taking apart, slagging off, throwing brickbats at, taking to pieces, giving a bad press to … more
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