Intermediate 📚 Vocabulary · #381 of 1319

chronic (adj.)

lasting a long time

Examples

  • Chronic pain.

Key rules

  • Chronic means lasting a long time or continuing
  • Chronic pain, chronic illness
  • Chronically is the adverb

Common mistakes

  • Chronic pain is short → Chronic pain lasts for a long time

Use cases

  • Describing long-term illness
  • Medical discussions
  • Describing problems
💡 Tip: Chronic is different from acute, which means sudden and severe.
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