Synonyms for Chronic
ˈkrɒn ɪkchron·ic

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1. chronicadjective

   Antonyms:
   acute

2. chronicnoun

   A chronic one

   Antonyms:
   acute

3. chronicnoun

   Prolonged or slow to heal. The opposite of acute.

   Antonyms:
   acute

4. chronicadjective

   suffering from such affliction

   Chronic patients must learn to live with their condition

   Antonyms:
   acute

5. chronicadjective

   He's a chronic smoker

   Antonyms:
   acute

6. chronicadjective

   That concert was chronic

   Antonyms:
   acute

7. chronicadjective

   They left him in a chronic condition

   Antonyms:
   acute

8. chronicadjective

   That was cool, chronic in fact

   Antonyms:
   acute

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:5.0 / 2 votes

1. chronicadjective

   being long-lasting and recurrent or characterized by long suffering

   "chronic indigestion"; "a chronic shortage of funds"; "a chronic invalid"

   Synonyms:
   inveterate, continuing

   Antonyms:
   acute, unusual, short, subacute

2. chronic, continuingadjective

   of long duration

   "chronic money problems"

   Synonyms:
   inveterate, continuing, chronic

   Antonyms:
   acute, short, subacute, unusual

3. chronic, inveterateadjective

   habitual

   "a chronic smoker"

   Synonyms:
   inveterate, continuing, chronic

   Antonyms:
   subacute, acute, short, unusual

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1. chronicadjective

   Synonyms:
   inveterate, deep-seated, of long duration

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1. chronicadjective

   Synonyms:
   habitual, lingering, inveterate

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1. List of paraphrases for "chronic":

   chronicle, chronique, chronically, chronicles, chroniques, chronical, column, long-term, recurrent, persistent, perennial, long-standing, glimpse

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1. Rhonda Randall:

   Another thing that concerns us that we found in this report was that premature death increased 3 % in the past year. That means years of life lost before people are reaching the age of 75, that often has correlation with a number of factors -- things like our lifestyle choices, living with more chronic diseases.

2. David Williams:

   Little indignities can predict mortality, sometimes we think it takes a big event, but if you are exposed to a series of chronic ongoing little indignities it all adds up.

3. Amy Arnsten:

   I am not a bad person -- this is just how the brain changes with chronic stress. It's doing it to try to protect me, even though in this situation, it's making it worse, having that kind of insight and perspective can break the vicious cycle where you're blaming yourself for not being better.

4. Louis Aronne:

   We know that 11 cancers are related to obesity and 50 illnesses are a direct result of an increase in body fat, so this is an obvious target for chronic disease management.

5. Winning sentence, 1990 Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction contest.:

   Delores breezed along the surface of her life like a flat stone forever skipping along smooth water, rippling reality sporadically but oblivious to it consistently, until she finally lost momentum, sank, and due to an over- dose of flouride as a child which caused her to suffer from chronic apathy, doomed herself to lie forever on the floor of her life as useless as an appendix and as lonely as a five-hundred pound barbell in a steroid-free fitness center.