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chronic
English
Alternative forms
- chronick (obsolete)
Etymology
From chronical, from Old French cronike, from Latin chronicus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (khronikós, “of time”), from ?????? (khrónos, “time”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k??n?k/
- Rhymes: -?n?k
Adjective
chronic (comparative more chronic, superlative most chronic)
- Of a problem, that continues over an extended period of time.
- 1980, Ruth Harriet Jacobs, Integrating Displaced Homemakers into the Economy (page 14)
- Peer group support is important to displaced homemakers. The Displaced Homemakers' Network has done excellent work in helping women see that their problems do not have to be chronic.
- 1980, Ruth Harriet Jacobs, Integrating Displaced Homemakers into the Economy (page 14)
- (medicine) Prolonged or slow to heal.
- Of a person, suffering from an affliction that is prolonged or slow to heal.
- Inveterate or habitual.
- (slang) Very bad, awful.
- (informal) Extremely serious.
- (slang) Good, great; "wicked".
Synonyms
- (that continues over an extended period of time): diuturnal, prolonged; see also Thesaurus:lasting
- (very bad, awful): abysmal, terrible; see also Thesaurus:bad
- (good, great): gnarly, splendid; see also Thesaurus:excellent
Antonyms
- (prolonged or slow to heal): acute, transient
Translations
Noun
chronic (countable and uncountable, plural chronics)
- (slang) Marijuana, typically of high quality.
- (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.
- A person who is chronic, such as a criminal reoffender or a person with chronic disease.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:marijuana
References
- chronic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “chronic”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Interlingua
Adjective
chronic (not comparable)
- chronic
chronic From the web:
- what chronic disease
- what chronic means
- what chronicle means
- what chronic pain
- what chronic diseases cause anemia
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persisting
English
Verb
persisting
- present participle of persist
Noun
persisting (plural persistings)
- persistence
- 1854, Robert Aitken, The teaching of the types (page 99)
- Still, in the very fullest blaze of gospel light, while we see that both Christ and His work are most ungratefully and flagrantly dishonoured, by our persistings in the attempt to do for ourselves what He has told us we cannot do, […]
- 1854, Robert Aitken, The teaching of the types (page 99)
Anagrams
- priestings, springiest
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