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Another word for chronic

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Adjective

  1. Of long duration

    See also:

    continue

  2. Familiar through repetition

    See also:

    usual

  3. Subject to a disease or habit for a long time

    See also:

    continue

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Another word for chronic

Modifier
  1. See also:

    permanent

    habitual

    Antonyms:

Synonym Study

  • Hardened implies fixed tendencies and a callous indifference to emotional or moral considerations a hardened criminal
  • Confirmed suggests fixedness in some condition or practice, often from a deep-seated aversion to change a confirmed bachelor
  • Inveterate implies firm establishment as a result of continued indulgence over a long period of time an inveterate liar
  • Chronic suggests long duration or frequent recurrence and is used especially of diseases or habits that resist all efforts to eradicate them chronic sinusitis
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Sentence Examples

  • Chronic gastric ulcer is not unfrequently the starting point of cancer.

  • In spite of chronic unpopularity and recurring persecutions they have spread over nearly all Europe.

  • The chief interest of the place centres in its brine springs which are largely impregnated with carbonic acid gas and oxide of iron, and are efficacious in chronic catarrh of the respiratory organs, in liver and stomach disorders and women's diseases.

  • In chronic rheumatism sulphur waters taken internally and used as baths are effectual.

  • III.), are carried into the tissues, where they set up chronic irritation of a more or less serious nature according to the nature of the inhaled particles.

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