Crucial: alternatives and connections

Qualified to criticise, or pass judgment upon, literary or artistic productions.

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Qualified to criticise, or pass judgment upon, literary or artistic productions.

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Having the power or quality of deciding a question or controversy; putting an end to contest or controversy; final; conclusive.

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Having the power or quality of deciding a question or controversy; putting an end to contest or controversy; final; conclusive.

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Full of, or burdened by, import; charged with great interests; restless; anxious.

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Full of, or burdened by, import; charged with great interests; restless; anxious.

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Consisting of matter; not spiritual; corporeal; physical; as, material substance or bodies.

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Consisting of matter; not spiritual; corporeal; physical; as, material substance or bodies.

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Of or pertaining to a pivot or turning point; belonging to, or constituting, a pivot; of the nature of a pivot; as, the pivotalopportunity of a caree…

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Of or pertaining to a pivot or turning point; belonging to, or constituting, a pivot; of the nature of a pivot; as, the pivotalopportunity of a caree…

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Of or pertaining to one of the poles of the earth, or of a sphere; situated near, or proceeding from, one of the poles; as, polar regions; polar seas…

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Of or pertaining to one of the poles of the earth, or of a sphere; situated near, or proceeding from, one of the poles; as, polar regions; polar seas…

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Qualified to criticise, or pass judgment upon, literary or artistic productions.

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Qualified to criticise, or pass judgment upon, literary or artistic productions.

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Having the power or quality of deciding a question or controversy; putting an end to contest or controversy; final; conclusive.

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Having the power or quality of deciding a question or controversy; putting an end to contest or controversy; final; conclusive.

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Belonging to the essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is.

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Belonging to the essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is.

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Belonging to the essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is.

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Full of, or burdened by, import; charged with great interests; restless; anxious.

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Full of, or burdened by, import; charged with great interests; restless; anxious.

Crucial overlaps with important, but its tone, intensity or usual context may differ. Check the definition before substituting it.

Full of, or burdened by, import; charged with great interests; restless; anxious.

Adds a sense that success or failure depends on it.