crucial
469
3.6
- adjective
- /ˈkruːʃəl/
:
crucial
- Understanding the rules is crucial for winning the game.
- a crucial role
- crucial for understanding
- play a crucial role
Self compassion is a crucial place to start.
- Self compassion is a crucial place to start.
- Zinc and iron are crucial to getting pregnant.
- Vitamin D is crucial for repair of wounds.
- And I think, you know, getting good sleep is crucial, absolutely crucial.
- So don't get me wrong, science is crucial for dealing with consciousness.
- So perspective taking is, I think really crucial in this.
- We're moving past the most crucial phase of the pandemic.
- Notice again how crucial timing is in this case.
- Now watering is very, very crucial to fruit production.
- And you'll see in a little while why that's so crucial for my project.
- Self determination is crucial to maintain the fuel of a movement.
Examples
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And I think, you know, getting good sleep is crucial, absolutely crucial.
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Enquiries must be made in London -- the girl's identity is crucial to solving this crime.
Fiction book (1993) -
I know what the crucial next step is.
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But this year, there was one crucial difference.
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So space and the opportunity to collect is crucial for my practice.
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Women in Canada argued that the media was crucial in getting their message out to the public.
Academic text (2011) -
The events of his life during that crucial period remain unknown.
Academic text (2011) -
In Southern and Northern Europe, this process was crucial to people's attempts to give meaning to life.
Academic text (2011) -
As is the case with any study, sample size calculation is a crucial part of SMART design.
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A free society is crucial to reversing these trends.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
A person or thing that matters a lot
∞
1.0
Very serious or important
∞
2.0
Very important for something to work or succeed
∞
2.5
Important and big enough to make a difference
917
4.0
Very important at a dangerous or decisive moment
537
1.9
Needed for something to work or succeed
403
3.5
Necessary for life or for something to succeed
84
4.9
Very important for the success of something
74
4.0
A strong effect that changes the result
48
4.6
Needed so much you cannot do without it or them
46
7.0
Important because it changes what happens next
45
6.7
More important than anything else
29
5.0
Very important and basic to how something works
24
4.0
Very necessary for a decision or success
19
7.4
Having important effects or results
Very important and needed for something to work or survive
Antonyms
Compounds
How Important
Surface Forms
Morphology
crucial = cruc + ial
The element 'cruc-' is a Latin combining form (not a standalone English base) and the semantic shift to 'extremely important/decisive' is not recoverable from the apparent parts for an average B1 learner.
Etymology
The word crucial comes from the Latin root crux, which means 'cross'. Think of a crossroads where you must choose a path; that choice can decide what happens, so a 'crucial' moment is one that is very important or decisive.