- (of a disease) lasting for a long time; difficult to cure
- chronic bronchitis/arthritis/asthma
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- having had a disease for a long time
- a chronic alcoholic/depressive
- (of a problem) lasting a long time; difficult to solve
- the country’s chronic unemployment problem
- a chronic shortage of housing in rural areas
- (British English, informal) very bad
- The film was just chronic.
Word Originlate Middle English: from French chronique, via Latin from Greek khronikos ‘of time’, from khronos ‘time’.
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