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crucial
What does crucial mean?
crucial (adjective): essential or decisive for determining the outcome or future of something; extremely important; vital.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use crucial in a sentence?
- Education is crucial. (Tatoeba sentence #5753465 by CM, CC BY 2.0 FR)
How do you pronounce crucial?
/ˈkɹuʃəl/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does crucial come from?
1706, from French crucial, a medical term for ligaments of the knee (which cross each other).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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What does “crucial” mean?
of a fruit, vegetable, seed, etc., ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature
Not quite: that's what ripe means.
essential or decisive for determining the outcome or future of something; extremely important; vital
Right! That's what “crucial” means.
wonderful; marvelous; excellent; extraordinarily good or great (used especially as an intensifier)
Not quite: that's what fantastic means.
allowed to and meeting the necessary conditions required to participate in or be chosen for something
Not quite: that's what eligible means.
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