Sekirov Dictionary

chronic

UK /ˈkɹɒn.ɪk/US /ˈkɹɑ.nɪk/

adjective 7
noun 3
forms 3

adjective7

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Being problematic over an extended period of time.
- 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
•
Prolonged or slow to heal.
- So dreadful was the concentration of his glare that it seemed as if it must become chronic and stay like that for ever. — 1913
•
Of a person, suffering from an affliction that is prolonged or slow to heal.
- Chronic patients must learn to live with their condition.
•
Inveterate or habitual.
- He's a chronic smoker.
•
(slang) Good, great; "wicked".
- That was cool, chronic in fact.
•
(slang) Very bad, awful.
- That concert was chronic.
•
(informal) Extremely serious.
- They left him in a chronic condition.

noun3

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.
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(slang) Marijuana, typically of high quality.
- It's ironic, I had the brew, she had the chronic — 1992
•
A person who is chronic, such as a criminal reoffender or a person with chronic disease.
- Wernersvill asylum is now practically filled, and, as it is peopled with able-bodied chronics, there will be but little annual movement of patients. — 1895

forms

chronics · more chronic · most chronic

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