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Synonyms for chronic
ˈkrɒn ɪkchron·ic
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Wiktionary
chronicadjective
Antonyms:
acutechronicnoun
A chronic one
Antonyms:
acutechronicnoun
Prolonged or slow to heal. The opposite of acute.
Antonyms:
acutechronicadjective
suffering from such affliction
Chronic patients must learn to live with their condition
Antonyms:
acutechronicadjective
He's a chronic smoker
Antonyms:
acutechronicadjective
That concert was chronic
Antonyms:
acutechronicadjective
They left him in a chronic condition
Antonyms:
acutechronicadjective
That was cool, chronic in fact
Antonyms:
acute
Princeton's WordNet
chronicadjective
being long-lasting and recurrent or characterized by long suffering
"chronic indigestion"; "a chronic shortage of funds"; "a chronic invalid"
Synonyms:
inveterate, continuingchronic, continuingadjective
of long duration
"chronic money problems"
Synonyms:
inveterate, continuingchronic, inveterateadjective
habitual
"a chronic smoker"
Synonyms:
inveterate, continuing
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
chronicadjective
Synonyms:
inveterate, deep-seated, of long duration
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
chronicadjective
Synonyms:
habitual, lingering, inveterate
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "chronic":
chronicle, chronique, chronically, chronicles, chroniques, chronical, column, long-term, recurrent, persistent, perennial, long-standing, glimpse
Suggested Resources
Chronic
Chronic vs. Acute -- In this Grammar.com article you will learn the differences between the words Chronic and Acute.
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#2239 | column | |
#3035 | continuing | |
#4901 | chronic | |
#6870 | chronicles | |
#8062 | chronicle | |
#9645 | persistent | |
#14766 | glimpse | |
#16516 | recurrent | |
#16729 | perennial | |
#33737 | chronically | |
#91750 | chroniques | |
#105264 | inveterate | |
#141830 | chronique | |
#221898 | chronical |
How to use chronic in a sentence?
In forty years of medical practice, I have found only two types of non-pharmaceutical ‘therapy’ to be vitally important for patients with chronic neurological diseases: music and gardens.
We need to really understand how health and education are inexorably linked, this is the case for all children, but is especially important for children who face additional chronic adversities like poverty, toxic stress or chronic illness.
Because women are delaying childbearing, a larger proportion of them are likely entering pregnancy with a burden of chronic disease conditions, many studies have shown that an increasing number of pregnant women in the United States have chronic health conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, chronic heart disease and all these conditions can put a pregnant woman at higher risk of pregnancy complications.
That feeling may be inducing some of these chemical changes that may set them up for chronic inflammation and possibly chronic disease in the future. a person does not have to die to experience a loss.
As we get older the brain can get smaller, so the bridging veins can have small bleeds and patients may need to be screened cognitively with an examination as well as imaging to look for subtle chronic subdural hematomas that can interfere with walking and cognition and cause chronic complaints.
Translations for chronic
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- дълготраен, продължителен, хроничен, привиченBulgarian
- crònicCatalan, Valencian
- chronickýCzech
- chronischGerman
- χρόνιοςGreek
- crónica, crónicoSpanish
- kroonilineEstonian
- krooninenFinnish
- chroniqueFrench
- crónica, crónicoGalician
- जीर्णHindi
- cronicoItalian
- 慢性的Japanese
- 만성병 환자Korean
- chronicum, chronicusLatin
- chronischDutch
- kroniskNorwegian
- chronicznyPolish
- crónica, crónicoPortuguese
- хроническийRussian
- kroniskSwedish
- хронічнийUkrainian
- 慢性Chinese
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