chronically
28
4.8
- adverb
- /ˈkrɒnɪkli/
:
crónicamente
- 50% of families with a chronically ill child break up.
- chronically ill
- chronically disabled
- chronically depressed
You can plan on them maintaining this sort of chronically hovering sense of threat.
- You can plan on them maintaining this sort of chronically hovering sense of threat.
- Second is the sense that the world is chronically unsafe.
- Or you have a chronically disabled child.
- The cowardice of the intellectual is not the cowardice of the person who's chronically afraid.
- And because they're chronically dehydrated, they have this constant sense of thirst.
- I mean, but clearly bad things start to happen when we are chronically sleep deprived.
- Within six months, I was chronically addicted to crystal meth.
- You probably are not chronically inflamed.
- And of those one billionaire chronically hungry, they're not getting enough.
- All these things come when you're chronically trying to starve yourself.
- Now these are terminal cancer patients or chronically acute with acute pain.
- I think I was more chronically in sleep debt.
Examples
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Individuals who remain chronically homeless frequently suffer debilitating effects of serious mental illness and addiction.
Academic text (2012) -
Found two application errors for a chronically ill client.
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Why am I chronically unable to fall asleep?
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The result is that the chronically late student will no longer be missing valuable class time.
Academic text (2011) -
The logistics behind educational planning for all chronically ill children are tremendously difficult.
Academic text (2008) -
Over 850 million people worldwide are estimated to be chronically hungry and malnourished.
Academic text (2008) -
You're not your most tolerant self when you are chronically sleep deprived.
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Why am I chronically unable to fall asleep?
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50% of families with a chronically ill child break up.
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You're not your most tolerant self when you are chronically sleep deprived.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Happens without stopping
740
1.0
Very often or all the time without stopping
139
2.9
Happening again and again over time, often with short breaks
95
2.3
Happens without stopping or pausing
65
2.2
Happens again and again for many days in a row
37
3.6
Happens every day for a long time in the same boring way
33
3.4
Every day for a long time without any change
14
3.8
In a determined way that keeps going despite problems
6
5.4
Happens every year or for a long time
2
4.1
Happens every week in the same way for a long time
1
4.3
Happens again and again at regular times
Antonyms
Compounds
How Persistent
740
1.0
28
4.8
∞
1.0
∞
1.0
438
2.0
539
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word chronically comes from the root chron- which means 'time', and you can see it in chronicle, a record of events over time. So, when something happens chronically, it continues for a long time or keeps happening.