| query | A c______ illness or disability lasts for a very long time. Compare acute .A chronic illness or disability lasts for a very long time. Compare acute . ...chronic back pain. Most of them were chronically ill. |
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| word | chronic |
| full-definition | adjective A chronic illness or disability lasts for a very long time. Compare acute . ...chronic back pain. Most of them were chronically ill. You can describe someone's bad habits or behaviour as chronic when they have behaved like that for a long time and do not seem to be able to stop themselves. Anyone who does not believe that smoking is an addiction has never been a chronic smoker. ...a chronic worrier. A chronic situation or problem is very severe and unpleasant . One cause of the artist's suicide seems to have been chronic poverty. There is a chronic shortage of patrol cars in this police district. Research and technology are said to be chronically underfunded. |
| inflections | chronicallychronically |
| cefr-level | C1 |
Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:c1
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