chronic
UK /ˈkɹɒn.ɪk/ · US /ˈkɹɑ.nɪk/ adjective, noun
Forms chronics chronick
- adjective Being problematic over an extended period of time. “chronic unemployment; chronic poverty; chronic anger; chronic life”
- adjective (medicine) Prolonged or slow to heal. “chronic cough; chronic headache; chronic illness”
- adjective Of a person, suffering from an affliction that is prolonged or slow to heal. “Chronic patients must learn to live with their condition.”
- adjective Inveterate or habitual. “He's a chronic smoker.”
- adjective (slang) Very bad, awful. “That concert was chronic.”
- adjective (informal) Extremely serious. “They left him in a chronic condition.”
- adjective (slang) Good, great; "wicked". “That was cool, chronic in fact.”
- noun (slang) Marijuana, typically of high quality.
- noun (medicine) A condition of extended duration, either continuous or marked by frequent recurrence. Sometimes implies a condition which worsens with each recurrence, though that is not inherent in the term.
- noun A person who is chronic, such as a criminal reoffender or a person with chronic disease.
Synonyms
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Antonyms
Etymology
From chronical, from Old French cronike, from Latin chronicus, from Ancient Greek χρονικός (khronikós, “of time”), from χρόνος (khrónos, “time”). By surface analysis, chron- + -ic.
Webster’s 1913
- adjective Relating to time; according to time.
- adjective Continuing for a long time; lingering; habitual. Chronic disease, one which is inveterate, of long continuance, or progresses slowly, in distinction from an acute disease, which speedly terminates.
Etymology [L. chronicus, Gr. chronique.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “chronic”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details