Critical and Warning

Critical

Critical adjective - Given to making or expressing unfavorable judgments about things.

Warning and critical are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Warning" instead an adjective "Critical".

Warning

Warning adjective - Serving as or offering a warning.
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Synonyms for Warning

Critical and warning are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Critical" instead an adjective "Warning".

Nearby Words: warn, warned

Both words in one sentence

  • Portal 2: The Aperture Science Enrichment Center's nuclear reactor spends, all together, well over half the game either going critical or warning you that it's about to go critical.
  • Critical Annoyance Averted in Gears of War, which can cause a lot of accidental deaths to Halo or Call of Duty players who are used to an audio warning to signal critical health.
  • Critical Annoyance MechWarrior Online subverts this when at critical damage, a warning tone will play for several moments but otherwise stays quiet, the blinking red light in the cockpit and the red "CRITICAL DAMAGE" displayed on your HUD stays until you win/die though.
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