NONCRITICAL Synonyms: 40 Similar and Opposite Words

noncritical

adjective

Definition of noncritical

as in unimportant

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Recent Examples of noncritical The agency added that two teenage patients were treated for injuries and that one was transported to a hospital with noncritical injuries related to the bear encounter. — Shafiq Najib, ABC News, 16 June 2026 One victim remains in critical condition and another sustained noncritical injuries, and a fourth person was hurt while trying to leave the home, the news station reported. — Francie Ebert, NBC news, 3 May 2026 Within about 25 minutes, all 14 patients — three critical and 11 noncritical patients — were in ambulances heading to hospitals or had already arrived, Mallon said. — Nicole Villalpando, Austin American Statesman, 7 Mar. 2026 Some data center operators are beginning to invest in on-site generation, battery storage or shifting noncritical computing tasks to off-peak hours. — Fortune, 26 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for noncritical

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Adjective

That said, this does not mean the Detect, Respond and Recover pillars of the NIST CSF are unimportant.

— Andrew Ginter, Forbes.com, 20 Oct. 2026
Wright agrees that the findings shouldn’t be interpreted to mean that omega-3s are unimportant for the brain.

— Mira Miller, Verywell Health, 14 July 2026

Definition of unimportant

Adjective

Span can also throttle nonurgent workloads or transfer them to other nodes in the fleet.

— Vanessa Bates Ramirez, Scientific American, 22 May 2026
Waiting lists for disease diagnosis and nonurgent surgeries are becoming unmanageable, emergency rooms are overwhelmed, and staff is exhausted, Guedes warns.

— Sarah Moreno Updated February 19, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2026

Definition of nonurgent

Adjective

To non-historians, the difference of a few years might seem rather trivial.

— Mike McRae October 15, New Atlas, 16 Oct. 2026
But in Season 4, the balance is off, and the fictional president’s parallels to our real-life war-starting, ally-betraying POTUS only make the former’s plight feel that much more trivial.

— Ben Travers, IndieWire, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of trivial

Adjective

An area of high pressure over the Northeast, combined with a non-tropical low-pressure system in the Atlantic, are creating a corridor of persistent winds blowing onshore over the Southeast coast.

— ABC News, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026
Along the East Coast, strong low-pressure systems could be far more frequent than normal this winter, with about 18 forecast compared with a typical nine.

— Washington Post, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of low-pressure

Adjective

Charlie Weasley is a minor character in the books and does not appear in the films, so the HBO series is straying from the movies regarding Ron Weasley’s older brother.

— Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 27 Oct. 2026
If winner is deemed to be a minor under the jurisdiction of his/her residence, the prize will be awarded in the name of his/her parent or legal guardian who must execute the necessary affidavit and release and, if applicable,.

— Bon Appétit, Bon Appetit Magazine, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of minor

Adjective

The cynic would say their aims are financial, and the outcomes in education are merely incidental to that end.

— Kamau Bobb October 21, Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2026
But then the story stalls, zeroes in on some incidental detail, and collapses into a mode of reflection that is circular and recursive.

— Meghan O’Gieblyn, The New York Review of Books, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of incidental

Adjective

So much so that it’s been amply speculated his negligible production was about shortcomings.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 20 Oct. 2026
Sumitomo Electric Industries supplied the multi-core fiber, creating an ultra-low-loss fiber with negligible crosstalk.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 19 Oct. 2026

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