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Chronic

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chron=ic

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective Chronic has 3 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

Chronica. [L. chronicus, Gr. concerning time, from time: cf. F. chronique.].
  •  Relating to time; according to time.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Continuing for a long time; lingering; habitual.  [1913 Webster]
Chronic disease, one which is inveterate, of long continuance, or progresses slowly, in distinction from an acute disease, which speedly terminates.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Chronic, adj.
1 persisting for a long time (usu. of an illness or a personal or social problem).
2 having a chronic complaint.
3 colloq. disp. habitual, inveterate (a chronic liar).
4 Brit. colloq. very bad; intense, severe.

Derivative
chronically adv. chronicity n.
Etymology
F chronique f. L chronicus (in LL of disease) f. Gk khronikos f. khronos time

THESAURUS

Chronic

abiding, accepted, accustomed, age-long, aged, ancient, antique, confirmed, constant, continuing, customary, deep-dyed, deep-fixed, deep-rooted, deep-seated, deep-set, deep-settled, diuturnal, durable, dyed-in-the-wool, enduring, established, evergreen, fast, fixed, habitual, habituated, hardened, hardy, immutable, implanted, incorrigible, inculcated, infixed, ingrained, instilled, intransient, inveterate, irreversible, lasting, lingering, long-established, long-lasting, long-lived, long-standing, long-term, longeval, longevous, macrobiotic, of long duration, of long standing, perdurable, perduring, perennial, permanent, perpetual, persistent, persisting, remaining, rooted, routine, sempervirent, set, settled, settled in habit, stable, staying, steadfast, thorough, tough, unfading, vital, wonted

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Chronic

Diuturnity

N diuturnity, a long time, a length of time, an age, a century, an eternity, slowness, perpetuity, blue moon, coon's age, dog's age, durableness, durability, persistence, endlessness, lastingness, continuance, standing, permanence, survival, survivance, longevity, distance of time, protraction of time, prolongation of time, extension of time, delay, durable, lasting, of long duration, of long-standing, permanent, endless, chronic, long-standing, intransient, intransitive, intransmutable, persistent, lifelong, livelong, longeval, long-lived, macrobiotic, diuturnal, evergreen, perennial, sempervirent, sempervirid, unrelenting, unintermitting, unremitting, perpetual, lingering, protracted, prolonged, spun out, long-pending, long-winded, slow, long, for a long time, for an age, for ages, for ever so long, for many a long day, long ago, longo intervallo, all the day long, all the year round, the livelong day, as the day is long, morning noon and night, hour after hour, day after day, for good, permanently.

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