All crucial synonyms
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C c adj crucial
- critical — If a person is critical or in a critical condition in hospital, they are seriously ill.
- deciding — powerfully and finally influencing a decision; decisive
- necessary — being essential, indispensable, or requisite: a necessary part of the motor.
- touchy — apt to take offense on slight provocation; irritable: He is very touchy when he's sick.
- pressing — urgent; demanding immediate attention: a pressing need.
- compelling — A compelling argument or reason is one that convinces you that something is true or that something should be done.
- urgent — compelling or requiring immediate action or attention; imperative; pressing: an urgent matter.
- vital — of or relating to life: vital processes.
- pivotal — of, relating to, or serving as a pivot.
- central — Something that is central is in the middle of a place or area.
- imperative — imperative language
- decisive — If a fact, action, or event is decisive, it makes it certain that there will be a particular result.
- momentous — of great or far-reaching importance or consequence: a momentous day.
- acute — An acute accent is a symbol that is placed over vowels in some languages in order to indicate how that vowel is pronounced or over one letter in a word to indicate where it is stressed. You refer to a letter with this accent as, for example, e acute. For example, there is an acute accent over the letter 'e' in the French word 'café'.
- clamorous — If you describe people or their voices as clamorous, you mean they are talking loudly or shouting.
- desperate — If you are desperate, you are in such a bad situation that you are willing to try anything to change it.
- dire — causing or involving great fear or suffering; dreadful; terrible: a dire calamity.
- insistent — earnest or emphatic in dwelling upon, maintaining, or demanding something; persistent; pertinacious.
- searching — examining carefully or thoroughly: a searching inspection.
- showdown — the laying down of one's cards, face upward, in a card game, especially poker.
- climacteric — a critical event or period
- climatic — Climatic conditions, changes, and effects relate to the general weather conditions of a place.
- on thin ice — the solid form of water, produced by freezing; frozen water.
adjective crucial
- key — a small metal instrument specially cut to fit into a lock and move its bolt.
- fundamental — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
- important — of much or great significance or consequence: an important event in world history.