critically Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adverb in a critical manner
    • this must be examined critically

WordNet

Crit"ic*al*ly adverb
Definitions
  1. In a critical manner; with nice discernment; accurately; exactly.
    Critically to discern good writers from bad. Dryden.
  2. At a crisis; at a critical time; in a situation. place, or condition of decisive consequence; as, a fortification critically situated.
    Coming critically the night before the session. Bp. Burnet.

Webster 1913