Extremely important.
Inclined to find fault or criticize.
Relating to criticism or careful analysis, such as literary or film criticism.
Of a patient condition involving unstable vital signs and a prognosis that predicts the condition could worsen; or, a patient condition that requires urgent treatment in an intensive care or critical care medical facility.
Likely to go out of control if disturbed, that is, opposite of stable.
Of the point (in temperature, reagent concentration etc.) where a nuclear or chemical reaction becomes self-sustaining.
Of a temperature that is equal to the temperature of the critical point of a substance, i.e. the temperature above which the substance cannot be liquefied.
Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis or turning point.
A critical value, factor, etc.
In breakdancing, a kind of airflare move in which the dancer hops from one hand to the other.
Prominent or significant in size, amount, or degree.
Equivalent to that between the tonic and another note of a major scale, and greater by a semitone than the corresponding minor interval.
Having a major third above the root.
Of or relating to a subject of academic study chosen as a field of specialization.
Bell changes rung on eight bells.
Containing the major term in a categorical syllogism.
Greater in dignity, rank, importance, significance, or interest.
Of full legal age, having attained majority.
Greater in number, quantity, or extent.
(of a key) Based on a major scale, tending to produce a bright or joyful effect.
Involving great risk, serious, life-threatening.
Occurring as the predicate in the conclusion of a categorical syllogism.
Notable or conspicuous in effect or scope.
Having intervals of a semitone between the third and fourth, and seventh and eighth degrees.
Used in a phrasal verb: major in.
A large, commercially successful company, especially a record label that is bigger than an indie.
An officer in charge of a section of band instruments, used with a modifier.
A system of change-ringing using eight bells.
A touchdown, or major score.
The principal subject or course of a student working toward a degree at a college or university.
A student at a college or university specializing on a given area of study.
A rank of officer in the army and the US air force, between captain and lieutenant colonel.
A goal.
A person of legal age.
A large leaf-cutter ant that acts as a soldier, defending the nest.