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chronic
What does chronic mean?
chronic (adjective): being long-lasting and recurrent or characterized by long suffering.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use chronic in a sentence?
- Chronic indigestion. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
- A chronic shortage of funds. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
How do you pronounce chronic?
/ˈkɹɑnɪk/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does chronic come from?
From chronical, from Old French cronike, from Latin chronicus, from Ancient Greek χρονικός (khronikós, “of time”), from χρόνος (khrónos, “time”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
What are antonyms of chronic?
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “chronic” mean?
being within reasonable or average limits; not excessive or extreme
Not quite: that's what moderate means.
very great in size, amount, degree, intensity, or especially extent
Not quite: that's what vast means.
being long-lasting and recurrent or characterized by long suffering
Right! That's what “chronic” means.
marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws
Not quite: that's what critical means.
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