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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. Examples:
    1. “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:
    1. “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:
    1. “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. Examples:
    1. “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
criticizing
critiqued
critiquing
criticised
criticising
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