chronic
/ˈkɹɑ.nɪk/ adjectif C1En français : chronique
- Being problematic over an extended period of time. · chronic unemployment; chronic poverty; chronic anger; chronic life
- Prolonged or slow to heal. · chronic cough; chronic headache; chronic illness
- Of a person, suffering from an affliction that is prolonged or slow to heal. · Chronic patients must learn to live with their condition.
- Inveterate or habitual. · He's a chronic smoker.
- Very bad, awful. · That concert was chronic.
- Extremely serious. · They left him in a chronic condition.
- Good, great; "wicked". · That was cool, chronic in fact.
Dans la bibliothèque
The ticker began to reel out jerkily its fitful coils of tape, the desk telephone had a chronic attack of buzzing.
This was one of his parts in the popular comedy he was performing,—a make-up he had adopted and which suited him about as well as the masks worn on the classic stage by paternal actors, who seen from one side, were the image of geniality, and from the other showed lips drawn down in chronic ill-temper.
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