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NONCRITICAL
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Marked by disregard for critical standards or procedures
Example:
news sources reflected uncritical estimates of the number of juvenile addicts
Synonyms:
noncritical; uncritical
Classified under:
Also:
unscholarly (not scholarly)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Not in a state of crisis or emergency
Synonyms:
noncritical; noncrucial
Classified under:
Similar:
acritical (without a crisis (as of some diseases))
Attribute:
crisis (an unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty)
Antonym:
critical (being in or verging on a state of crisis or emergency)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Not critical; not at a point of abrupt change
Classified under:
Adjectives
Attribute:
criticality (a critical state; especially the point at which a nuclear reaction is self-sustaining)
Domain category:
chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)
natural philosophy; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)
Antonym:
critical (at or of a point at which a property or phenomenon suffers an abrupt change especially having enough mass to sustain a chain reaction)
