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chronic
1. adj. Of a problem, that continues over an extended period of time.
chronic unemployment; chronic poverty; chronic anger
2. adj. (medicine) Prolonged or slow to heal.
chronic cough; chronic headache; chronic illness
3. adj. Of a person, suffering from an affliction that is prolonged or slow to heal.
Chronic patients must learn to live with their condition.
4. adj. Inveterate or habitual.
He's a chronic smoker.
5. adj. (slang) Very bad, awful.
That concert was chronic.
6. adj. (informal) Extremely serious.
They left him in a chronic condition.
7. adj. (slang) Good, great; "wicked".
That was cool, chronic in fact.
8. n. (slang) Marijuana, typically of high quality.
9. n. (medicine) A condition of extended duration, either continuous or marked by frequent recurrence. Sometimes implies a condition which worsens with each recurrence, though that is not inherent in the te
10. n. A person who is chronic, such as a criminal reoffender or a person with chronic disease.

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Example Sentences

If you don't know what chronic is, that's when something is inevitable, there forever.  She's just being a glutton and that'll teach you to stop smoking the chronic!  Another possible contributory factor is an increase in the absolute numbers of people with severe chronic conditions who are surviving now compared with the past.

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