discerning vs critical

discerning and critical both are adjectives.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
discerning	No	Yes	No	No
critical	No	Yes	No	No

discerning (adjective)	critical (adjective)
having or revealing keen insight and good judgment	marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws
able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive	characterized by careful evaluation and judgment
quick to understand	being in or verging on a state of crisis or emergency
unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic	at or of a point at which a property or phenomenon suffers an abrupt change especially having enough mass to sustain a chain reaction
	of or involving or characteristic of critics or criticism
	forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis
	urgently needed; absolutely necessary