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chronic adjective [ ˈkrɒnɪk ]

• (of an illness) persisting for a long time or constantly recurring.
• "chronic bronchitis"
Similar: persistent, long-standing, long-term, constantly recurring, incurable, immedicable,
Opposite: acute,
• of a very poor quality.
• "the film was absolutely chronic"
Similar: very bad, appalling, awful, dreadful, terrible, frightful, atrocious, hopeless, abominable, laughable, lamentable, execrable, crummy, pathetic, rotten, useless, woeful, lousy, abysmal, dire, godawful, the pits, duff, rubbish, pants, a load of pants, poxy, egregious, crap, shit, chickenshit,
Opposite: good, excellent,
Origin: late Middle English: from French chronique, via Latin from Greek khronikos ‘of time’, from khronos ‘time’.


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