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Critical vs Underlook - What's the difference?

critical | underlook |

As nouns the difference between critical and underlook

is that critical is a critical value, factor, etc while underlook is a suspicious or critical look; scowl, leer.

As an adjective critical

is inclined to find fault or criticize; fastidious; captious; censorious; exacting.

As a verb underlook is

to be suspicious or mistrustful of.

critical

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Inclined to find fault or criticize; fastidious; captious; censorious; exacting.
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  • Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis or turning point.
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  • *:Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability:it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
  • Extremely important.
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  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author= Katie L. Burke
    • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= In the News , passage=Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis:
  • Relating to criticism or careful analysis, such as literary or film criticism.
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  • (lb) 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.
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  • Likely to go out of control if disturbed, that is, opposite of stable.
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  • Of the point (in temperature, reagent concentration etc.) where a nuclear or chemical reaction becomes self-sustaining.
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    • Derived terms

    {{der3, criticality , critically , criticalness , critical angle , critical mass , critical point , critical thinking , mission-critical , pseudocritical , supercritical}}

    Related terms

    * critic * criticism

    See also

    * (wikipedia "critical") * (Medical state)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A critical value, factor, etc.
  • * 1976 , American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Journal of engineering for industry (volume 98, page 508)
    • The second undamped system criticals show a greater percentage depression than the first.
  • * 2008 , John J. Coyle, C. John Langley, Brian Gibson, Supply Chain Management: A Logistics Perspective (page 564)
    • Finally, criticals are high-risk, high-value items that give the final product a competitive advantage in the marketplace Criticals, in part, determine the customer's ultimate cost of using the finished product — in our example, the computer.

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    * * * English words suffixed with -al

    underlook

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a suspicious or critical look; scowl, leer
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1973 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Jack Kerouac , title=Visions of Cody , chapter= , url= , genre= , publisher=New Directions , isbn=0140179070 , page= , passage= … rubbing his hands busily, rocking back and forth with one foot in front of the other, his head down but watching Watson with an underlook that was very arrogant, cocky, ... }}

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to be suspicious or mistrustful of
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1906 , year_published=2007' , edition=Reprint , editor= , author=Elmer W. Cavins , title=Orthography As Outlined in the State Course of Study for Illinois , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=_Suspect._ To _underlook _; to imagine or infer that appearances misrepresent; hence one who _suspects_ is inclined to _look beneath_ the surface. }}
  • to look under something
  • To miss because one is looking too low.
  • to look intently at or into, scrutinize, inspect
  • To not give due worth or respect to.

    • Antonyms

    * (l)