NONCRITICAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does noncritical mean? 

• NONCRITICAL (adjective)
  The adjective NONCRITICAL has 3 senses:

1. not critical; not at a point of abrupt change

2. not in a state of crisis or emergency

3. marked by disregard for critical standards or procedures

  Familiarity information: NONCRITICAL used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NONCRITICAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not critical; not at a point of abrupt change

Attribute:

criticality (a critical state; especially the point at which a nuclear reaction is self-sustaining)

Domain category:

chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)

natural philosophy; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)

Antonym:

critical (at or of a point at which a property or phenomenon suffers an abrupt change especially having enough mass to sustain a chain reaction)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Not in a state of crisis or emergency

Synonyms:

noncritical; noncrucial

Similar:

acritical (without a crisis (as of some diseases))

Attribute:

crisis (an unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty)

Antonym:

critical (being in or verging on a state of crisis or emergency)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Marked by disregard for critical standards or procedures

Synonyms:

noncritical; uncritical

Context example:

news sources reflected uncritical estimates of the number of juvenile addicts

Also:

unscholarly (not scholarly)