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fault-finding, detracting adj.
urgently important adj.

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

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more critical

Then there was the matter of securing that data, which has become even more critical in the age of AI and autonomous agents.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Mounting worries about AI, combined with a series of shelved IPOs, makes the Anthropic IPO all the more critical.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

Raman has repeatedly signed off on funding for the program, but has become more critical of it in the last year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026

One could even argue that it’s now an even more critical part of Panettiere and Trachtenberg’s legacies.

From Salon ● Aug. 18, 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

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