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bedenklich — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • apprehensive adj Nervous or worried about something that might happen.
  • critical adj Extremely important, often because a lot depends on it.
  • precarious adj Not safe or stable; likely to fail or collapse at any moment.

Senses

bedenklich is used for these senses in English:

  • apprehensive Anticipating something with anxiety, fear, or doubt; reluctant.
  • critical (medicine) Of a patient condition involving unstable vital signs and a prognosis that predicts the condition could worsen; or, a patient condition that requires urgent treatment in an intensive care or critical care medical facility.
  • precarious (comparable) Dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous.

critical — full definition

  1. adj Extremely important, often because a lot depends on it.
  2. adj Expressing disapproval or finding fault.
  3. adj In a dangerous or unstable medical condition.
  4. adj Relating to careful analysis or evaluation, especially of literature or art.

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