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

   Antonyms:
   acute, short, subacute, unusual

3. chronic, inveterateadjective

   habitual

   "a chronic smoker"

   Synonyms:
   inveterate, continuing

   Antonyms:
   subacute, acute, short, unusual

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Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

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. David Leffell:

   The scientific facts are inescapable — regular use of sun protection reduces skin cancer and cancer precursors, the benefits of sun protection and the incontrovertible evidence of sunburn and chronic sun exposure as a cause of about 60 % of melanomas should inspire people to continue reasonable sun protection if they fit into the moderate to high risk groups, and even if they don’t.

2. Derek Scissors:

   China's problems are chronic, not acute.

3. Adupa Rao:

   In the medical world, acute illnesses usually mean a week to two weeks of illness. Subacute means anywhere from two to four weeks and chronic means anything from four to six weeks on that is persistent, so, the chronic long Covid symptoms are usually people that don't return to their baseline or close to their baseline after the initial infection -- and being able to diagnose long Covid is quite difficult.

4. Anne Germain:

   There are plenty of data supporting the idea that nightmares that become chronic are very detrimental to well-being -- sleep is disrupted, we think about dreams during the day and become distressed.

5. Chensheng Lu:

   This single incident would be reflective of acute toxicity. Pesticides play a role in acute and chronic health problems depending on the level of exposure, if you can measure residue in this kid's brain, then she was probably exposed to a very significant level of pesticide.