chronic

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Of a problem, that continues over an extended period of time.

   • 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.
2. 2

   Prolonged or slow to heal.

   • 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.
3. 3

   Of a person, suffering from an affliction that is prolonged or slow to heal.

   • Chronic patients must learn to live with their condition.
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   1. 4

      Inveterate or habitual.

      • He's a chronic smoker.
   2. 5

      Very bad, awful.

      • That concert was chronic.
   3. 6

      Extremely serious.

      • They left him in a chronic condition.
   4. 7

      Good, great

      Good, great; "wicked".

      • That was cool, chronic in fact.
   5. 8

      Marijuana, typically of high quality.

      • It's ironic, I had the brew, she had the chronic
   6. 9

      A condition of extended duration, either continuous or marked by frequent recurrence.…

      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.

   7. 10

      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.
      • 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) […]

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• synonymprolonged
• synonymlasting
• synonymterrible
• synonymbad
• synonymsplendid
• synonymexcellent
• antonymacuteantonym(s) of “prolonged or slow to heal”
• antonymtransientantonym(s) of “prolonged or slow to heal”