critical (adj.)
- abstruse
- accurate
- acute
- alarming
- appreciative
- arduous
- attentive
- bad
- basic
- belittling
- brutal
- captious
- censorious
- charged
- choosy
- clamorous
- clarifying
- close
- compelling
- complex
- conclusive
- conscientious
- consequential
- correct
- critic
- crucial
- crying
- cynical
- dangerous
- decisive
- delicate
- demanding
- demeaning
- demonstrative
- deprecating
- deprecative
- deprecatory
- depreciating
- depreciative
- depreciatory
- desperate
- detailed
- determinative
- differential
- difficult
- dire
- discerning
- discriminate
- discriminating
- discriminative
- disparaging
- distinctive
- editorial
- elucidative
- emergent
- enlightening
- essential
- exact
- exacting
- exegetic
- exigent
- explanatory
- explosive
- expositive
- expository
- exquisite
- fastidious
- faultfinding
- fine
- finical
- finicky
- formidable
- fussy
- grave
- hairsplitting
- hairy
- hard
- hard-fought
- high-pressure
- humbling
- hypercritical
- illuminating
- illustrative
- imperative
- imperious
- important
- insistent
- instant
- intricate
- judgmental
- judicative
- judicial
- judicious
- juridic
- juristic
- key
- knotted
- knotty
- laborious
- loaded
- lowering
- mean
- menacing
- meticulous
- minute
- momentous
- nagging
- narrow
- nice
- niggling
- operose
- overcritical
- parlous
- particular
- penetrating
- perilous
- picky
- pivotal
- precarious
- precise
- pregnant
- pressing
- priggish
- prudish
- punctilious
- punctual
- puritanic
- rationalistic
- refined
- religious
- rigid
- rigorous
- rough
- rugged
- scrupulous
- selective
- sensitive
- serious
- severe
- significant
- slippery
- slippy
- spiny
- steep
- strenuous
- strict
- subtle
- tactful
- thorny
- threatening
- ticklish
- toilsome
- touch-and-go
- touchy
- tough
- tricky
- ugly
- uncertain
- uphill
- urgent
- vital
- weighty
- wicked
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
For I am nothing, if not critical.
