chronic

Pluralchronics (some meanings)

1. 1
   adjective

   Lasting for a long time and hard to fix or stop.

   Like a weed that always grows again after you cut it.

   Our town has a chronic problem with traffic jams.

   The team's chronic losing made fans stop coming to games.

   Similarpersistent, perennial, ongoing, constant, recurrent

   Oppositetemporary, occasional

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2. 2
   adjective

   Lasting a long time or healing very slowly, like some illnesses and injuries.

   Like a small fire that burns slowly for a very long time.

   Her chronic back pain makes it hard to sit for long.

   He takes medicine every day for a chronic illness.

   Similarlong-term, persistent

   Oppositeacute

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3. 3
   adjective

   Sick for a long time with an illness that does not get better.

   The nurse visits chronic patients in their homes every week.

   After the accident he was chronic and could not return to work.

   Similarlong-term

   Oppositeacute

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4. 4
   adjective

   Doing something again and again, as a fixed habit.

   My brother is a chronic complainer who is never happy with anything.

   Our cat is a chronic sock thief, so we hide the laundry.

   Similarhabitual, inveterate, compulsive, incorrigible, hardened

   Oppositeoccasional

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5. 5
   nounslanguncountable

   Marijuana, usually of a strong, high-quality kind.

   He bragged that his cousin always had the best chronic in town.

   They rolled some chronic and watched movies all night.

   Similarweed, cannabis, pot, dope, grass

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6. 6
   adjectivecolloquial

   Very serious, in a bad and worrying way.

   The storm did chronic damage to the roof in just one night.

   Things got chronic at the meeting when the two managers started shouting.

   Similarserious, severe, critical, grave

   Oppositeminor, trivial

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7. 7
   adjectiveslang

   Very bad or awful.

   That movie was chronic, so we left before the end.

   The food at the new café was chronic, and we won't go back.

   Similarawful, terrible, dreadful, atrocious, abysmal

   Oppositeexcellent, great, superb

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8. 8
   adjectiveslang

   Very good or great.

   That new skate park is chronic. You have to try it.

   Her playlist is chronic, and everyone at school wants a copy.

   Similarawesome, great, excellent, amazing, brilliant

   Oppositeawful, terrible, lame

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9. 9
   nouncountable

   A person with a problem that never goes away, like someone who keeps breaking the law or is always sick.

   The judge knew him as a chronic who had been arrested many times.

   Nurses gave extra time to the chronics who lived on the ward all year.

   Similarrecidivist

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