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more critical

ADJECTIVE

fault-finding, detracting

Synonyms

STRONGEST

demanding

WEAK

analytical belittling biting calumniatory captious carping caviling cavillous censorious censuring choleric condemning critic cutting cynical demeaning derogatory diagnostic disapproving discerning discriminating disparaging exacting exceptive finicky fussy hairsplitting humbling hypercritical lowering nagging niggling nit-picking overcritical particular penetrating reproachful sarcastic satirical scolding severe sharp trenchant withering

Antonyms

WEAK

complimentary laudatory praising trivial uncritical unimportant

ADJECTIVE

urgently important

Synonyms

STRONGEST

crucial dangerous decisive dire integral perilous pivotal precarious risky serious significant strategic urgent vital

WEAK

acute all-important climacteric conclusive consequential deciding desperate determinative exceptive grave hairy hazardous high-priority momentous pressing weighty

Antonyms

STRONGEST

certain inessential minor safe secure sure trivial unimportant unnecessary

WEAK

complimentary laudatory praising uncritical

Example Sentences

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Anmuth was more critical of Meta’s spending plans, downgrading the stock to neutral from overweight on Thursday.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 30, 2026

Nor is it so odd, he argued, that Hilton now views California with a more critical eye.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026

All of us should be more critical of those to whom we offer this gift in our social contract.

From Salon • Apr. 10, 2026

Those headwinds for existing owners make new houses more critical.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

They’d often wondered, for instance, why the rating agencies weren’t more critical of bonds underpinned by floating-rate subprime mortgages.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis