Wordnet 3.0
ADVERB (1)
1.
in a critical manner;
- Example: "this must be examined critically"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Critically \Crit"ic*al*ly\, adv.
1. In a critical manner; with nice discernment; accurately;
exactly.
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Critically to discern good writers from bad.
--Dryden.
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2. At a crisis; at a critical time; in a situation, place, or
condition of decisive consequence; as, a fortification
critically situated.
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Coming critically the night before the session.
--Bp. Burnet.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
critically
adv 1: in a critical manner; "this must be examined critically"
[ant: uncritically]