Another word for crucial
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Adjective
So serious as to be at the point of crisis or necessary to resolve a crisis
- Warning of or having dreadful or terrible consequences; calamitous:
- Urgent; desperate:
- Having lost all hope; despairing.
- Marked by, arising from, or showing despair:
- Reckless or violent because of despair:
- Judging severely and finding fault:
- Relating to or characterized by criticism; reflecting careful analysis and judgment:
- Of, relating to, or characteristic of critics:
- A critical period or year in a person's life when major changes in health or fortune are thought to take place.
- A critical stage, period, or year:
- Of or relating to a climacteric.
- Reacting readily to stimuli or impressions; sensitive:
- Keenly perceptive or discerning:
- Extremely sharp or severe; intense:
See also:Determining or having the power to determine an outcome
- Able or serving to determine:
- A determining factor.
- Settling a matter or conflict; conclusive:
- Characterized by or showing the ability to make decisions quickly and firmly; resolute:
- Determining or able to determine an outcome:
- Serving to put an end to doubt, question, or uncertainty; decisive:
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Another word for crucial
Modifier
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- Demanding or requiring action or attention:
- Abominable; reprehensible:
- Urgently requiring attention:
- Drivingly forceful:
- Necessary or urgent:
- Expressing a command or plea; peremptory:
- Of, relating to, or constituting the mood that expresses a command or request.
- Demanding immediate attention; urgent:
- Very earnest or insistent:
- The process or an instance of applying pressure.
- Compelling immediate action or attention; pressing.
- Conveying a sense of pressing importance:
- Unsparing, harsh, or strict, as in treatment of others:
- Marked by or requiring strict adherence to rigorous standards or high principles:
- Stern or forbidding, as in manner or appearance:
- Reacting readily to stimuli or impressions; sensitive:
- Keenly perceptive or discerning:
- Extremely sharp or severe; intense:
- Of, relating to, or forming a base; fundamental:
- Of, being, or serving as a starting point or basis:
- Of or relating to a base.
- Of or relating to the foundation or base; elementary:
- Forming or serving as an essential component of a system or structure; central:
- Of great significance or entailing major change:
- Situated at, in, or near the center:
- Forming the center.
- Having dominant or controlling power or influence:
- Constituting or being part of the nature or essence of something; inherent:
- Fundamentally important or necessary:
- Of, relating to, or being a condition or a disease whose cause is unknown:
- Having or expressing a meaning:
- Having or expressing a covert or nonverbal meaning; suggestive:
- Having or likely to have a major effect; important:
- Of the greatest importance; crucial.
- Strongly affecting the course of events or the nature of things; significant:
- Having high social rank or influence; prominent:
- Having or suggesting a consciousness of high position or authority; authoritative:
- Vitally affecting subsequent events; being of great consequence; momentous:
- Controlled by or as if by fate; predetermined.
- Bringing death or disaster; fatal.
- Of utmost importance; of outstanding significance or consequence:
- Of, relating to, or characteristic of life:
- Necessary to the continuation of life; life-sustaining:
- Used or done on a living cell or tissue:
- Relating to or constituting a climax.
- Present participle of determine.
- Determining or able to determine an outcome:
- Of, relating to, or serving as a pivot.
- Being of vital or central importance; crucial:
- Settling a matter or conflict; conclusive:
- Characterized by or showing the ability to make decisions quickly and firmly; resolute:
- Judging severely and finding fault:
- Relating to or characterized by criticism; reflecting careful analysis and judgment:
- Of, relating to, or characteristic of critics:
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