critically

Adverb

1. In a critical manner; with, or in terms of, criticism.
   • I looked critically at the frayed carpet of the hotel room.
   • Girard critically examines Nietzsche's central contention that Christianity is a religion of sublimated vengeance or ressentiment and contents that although Nietzsche is half right about Christians he remains...
2. In terms of critique, review, of or by critics
   • a critically applauded film
3. With close discernment; accurately; exactly.
   • Thus difficult it is to underſtand the purity of Engliſh, and critically to diſcern not only good Writers from bad, and a proper ſtile from a corrupt, but alſo to diſtinguiſh that which is pure in a good Author, from...
4. At a crisis or critical time; in a situation, place, or condition of decisive consequence.
   • a fortification critically situated
   • Coming critically the night before the session. - a. 1716 (date written), [Gilbert] Burnet, edited by [Gilbert Burnet Jr.], Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London:...
5. Requiring immediate attention; likely to cause a collapse.
   • critically ill
   • critically injured
   • critically endangered