chronic

Forms

1.Of a problem, that continues over an extended period of time.
- Chronic mismanagement in the dugout and in the boardroom has meant the scale of the job now is as big as it has ever been.
- These concerns were shared by other SNP women who told the Guardian there was a chronic lack of support from the party, including for those with younger families.
- Peer group support is important to displaced homemakers. The Displaced Homemakers' Network has done excellent work in helping women see that their problems do not have to be chronic.
2.Prolonged or slow to heal.
- In 2016, the CDC established guidelines for prescribing narcotics for chronic pain.
- So dreadful was the concentration of his glare that it seemed as if it must become chronic and stay like that for ever.
3.Of a person, suffering from an affliction that is prolonged or slow to heal.
- Chronic patients must learn to live with their condition.
4.Inveterate or habitual.

1.Marijuana, typically of high quality.(slang)
2.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.
3.A person who is chronic, such as a criminal reoffender or a person with chronic disease.
- Wernersvill asylum is now practically filled, and, as it is peopled with able-bodied chronics, there will be but little annual movement of patients.
- And then there were the chronics, not only those with marked pathology but life-long sufferers from "indigestion" or migraine, who had been passed around from doctor to doctor with nothing but temporary relief.

Uncommon· #3797

From chronical, from Old French cronike, from Latin chronicus, from Ancient Greek χρονικός (khronikós, “of time”), from χρόνος (khrónos, “time”).

By surface analysis, chron- + -ic.