dictionary: Plural of critical is still critical

[vikivivi]

criticals is invalid in these online dictionaries as well as hunspell, aspell, ispell, aoo-mozilla-en-dict, chrome-browser

• https://www.dictionary.com/misspelling?term=criticals
• https://www.ldoceonline.com/spellcheck/english/?q=criticals
• https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/criticals
• https://dictionary.cambridge.org/spellcheck/english/?q=criticals
• https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/criticals

[peternewman]

Genuine question, as I begin to doubt myself:
There are five critical and two warning alerts, all the criticals are equally important, which one do you deal with first?

I guess it should maybe be "all the critical alerts..."

[DimitriPapadopoulos]

I suppose you could use the pronoun ones in formal English: all the critical ones.

See 'one' and 'ones' or One and Ones. But of course, ones is missing from most dictionaries. Sigh.

Also, when referring to well-known groups of people, no plural for (collective) adjectives.

On the other hand, from Common errors with adjectives and adverbs in English:

Some adjectives – especially “others” – can be used in plural form, if the noun was mentioned earlier (and is not directly after the adjective). Here are two examples:

• I have many pairs of shoes, but these red shoes are my favorites.
  (= favorite shoes)
• The boss gave raises to some employees but not others.
  (= other employees)
• Some of the shows on this channel are great, and others are terrible.
  (= other shows on this channel)

However, I believe this doesn't work with most adjectives:

• We have many alerts, but the red alerts are the criticals.

[vikivivi]

There are five critical and two warning alerts, all the criticals are equally important, which one do you deal with first?

There are five critical and two warning alerts, all the critical alerts are equally important, which one do you deal with first?

critical is an adjective.
There are 5 red cars.
There are 5 critical alerts.
There are 5 critical vulnerabilities.

[skangas]

Perhaps this is something for the informal dictionary?

[jwilk]

The plural of "critical" is of course "criticals":
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/critical#Noun

[DimitriPapadopoulos]

@jwilk We were not able to find critical as a noun in any dictionary, see #2580 (comment).

[DimitriPapadopoulos]

In GitHub, I believe “criticals” mostly refer to “critical hits” in games.

I would say it's up to end-users to skip this fix if they have to.

[luzpaz]

What's the final verdict on this ?

[DimitriPapadopoulos]

I guess it could be moved to dictionary_code.txt. Most occurrences of criticals refer to “critical hits” in games.