chronic

Meanings

Adjective

• Of a problem, that continues over an extended period of time.
• Prolonged or slow to heal.
• Of a person, suffering from an affliction that is prolonged or slow to heal.
• Inveterate or habitual.
• Very bad, awful.
• Extremely serious.
• Good, great; "wicked".

Noun

• Marijuana, typically of high quality.
• 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 term.
• A person who is chronic, such as a criminal reoffender or a person with chronic disease.

Related

Opposite words

• acute, transient

Origin

• From chronical, from Old French cronike, from Latin chronicus, from Ancient Greek χρονικός ("of time"), from χρόνος.