crit⋅i⋅cal

- adj.
1. inclined to find fault or to judge with severity, often too readily.
2. involving skillful judgment as to truth, merit, etc.; judicial.
3. providing textual variants, proposed emendations, etc.
4. pertaining to or of the nature of a crisis.
5. of decisive importance with respect to the outcome; crucial.
6. of essential importance; indispensable.
7. having unstable and abnormal vital signs and other unfavorable indicators.
8. a. pertaining to a state, value, or quantity at which one or more properties of a substance or system undergo a change.
b. having enough mass to sustain a chain reaction.

cyn⋅ic

- noun
1. a person who believes that only selfishness motivates human actions and who disbelieves in or minimizes selfless acts or disinterested points of view.
2. one of a sect of philosophers, who advocate the doctrines that virtue is the only good, that the essence of virtue is self-control, and that surrender to any external influence is beneath human dignity.
3. a person who shows or expresses a bitter or sneering attitude.
- adj.
4. resembling the actions of a snarling dog.

cyn⋅i⋅cal

- adj.
1. distrusting or disparaging the motives of others.
2. showing contempt for accepted standards of honesty or morality by one's actions, esp. by actions that exploit the scruples of others.
3. bitterly or sneeringly distrustful, contemptuous, or pessimistic.