| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Characterized by careful and exact evaluation: discerning, discriminating. See CAREFUL, VALUE. 2. Inclined to judge too severely: captious, carping, censorious, faultfinding, hypercritical, overcritical. See PRAISE. 3. So serious as to be at the point of crisis or necessary to resolve a crisis: acute, climacteric, crucial, desperate, dire. See SAFETY.
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