chronic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
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.
Inflected forms:
form: more chronic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most chronic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: chronick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: chronics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chronick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Of a problem, that continues over an extended period of time.
pos: adj
examples: chronic unemployment; chronic poverty; chronic anger; chronic life
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.
It was a casual sneer, obviously one of a long line. There was hatred behind it, but of a quiet, chronic type, nothing new or unduly virulent, and he was taken aback by the flicker of amazed incredulity that passed over the younger man's ravaged face.
Chronic mismanagement in the dugout and in the boardroom has meant the scale of the job now is as big as it has ever been.
These concerns were shared by other SNP women who told the Guardian there was a chronic lack of support from the party, including for those with younger families.
gloss: Prolonged or slow to heal.
pos: adj
examples: chronic cough; chronic headache; chronic illness
So dreadful was the concentration of his glare that it seemed as if it must become chronic and stay like that for ever.
In 2016, the CDC established guidelines for prescribing narcotics for chronic pain.
gloss: Of a person, suffering from an affliction that is prolonged or slow to heal.
pos: adj
examples: Chronic patients must learn to live with their condition.
gloss: Inveterate or habitual.
pos: adj
examples: He's a chronic smoker.
gloss: Very bad, awful.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: That concert was chronic.
gloss: Extremely serious.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: They left him in a chronic condition.
gloss: Good, great; "wicked".
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: That was cool, chronic in fact.
gloss: Marijuana, typically of high quality.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: It's ironic, I had the brew, she had the chronic
Pimp had been kicking it with one of the young jawns hanging around the apartment. She was real young and had bumpy skin and slum rings on every finger. She told us she was living next door with her grandmother while her mother was in jail, and she took us up to the roof to smoke some chronic.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A person who is chronic, such as a criminal reoffender or a person with chronic disease.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Wernersvill asylum is now practically filled, and, as it is peopled with able-bodied chronics, there will be but little annual movement of patients.
And then there were the chronics, not only those with marked pathology but life-long sufferers from "indigestion" or migraine, who had been passed around from doctor to doctor with nothing but temporary relief.
Of fifty-five boys scoring four or more, fifteen were chronic offenders (out of twenty-three chronics altogether) […]
Most congregations are full of wonderful people, but these chronics are also present in many churches. They come in three varieties -- the chronic havers of personal problems, the chronic complainers, and the chronic workaholics.
An Italian study (Francescato et al. 1979), which compared 137 women who had had more than one abortion with others who had aborted only once, revealed that the use of contraceptives was higher among the 'chronics', and that the contraceptives they employed were generally safer.
Synonyms: prolonged
terrible
splendid
Antonyms: acute
transient
Derived words: achronic
allochronic
chronically
chronic bee paralysis virus
chronic beryllium disease
chronic bronchitis
chronic cellular dehydration
chronic condition
chronic Covid
chronic COVID syndrome
chronic disease
chronic fatigue syndrome
chronic granulomatous disease
chronic illness
chronicity
chronicization
chronic Lyme
chronic Lyme disease
chronic myeloid leukemia
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
chronic skin-picking
chronic suppurative otitis media
chronic toxicity
chronic traumatic encephalopathy
chronic wasting disease
crunk
heterochronic
hydrochronic
mesochronic
monochronic
nonchronic
panchronic
parachronic
prechronic
semichronic
subchronic
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