Synset
characterized by careful evaluation and judgment
<adj.all>
freq. cnt.: 5
freq. cnt.: 5
critical
sample sentences
"a critical reading"
"a critical dissertation"
"a critical analysis of Melville's writings"
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
critic
criticism
antonym
uncritical
semantic pointers
also see
discerning
scholarly
similar to
evaluative, appraising
discriminative, judicial