crucially
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4.4
- adverb
- /ˈkruːʃəli/
:
crucialmente
- Timing is crucially important for the success of any project.
- crucially important
- crucially dependent
- crucially different
So we have lifespan, life expectancy, and crucially health span as well.
- So we have lifespan, life expectancy, and crucially health span as well.
- The state produces coinage which it needs for taxation, and the state crucially provides peace.
- We're running a Kickstarter, and timing is crucially important.
- And then, you know, your chosen family, your friends, I think are also crucially important.
- So walking around, you know, dancing, doing chores around the house, all crucially important.
- They didn't agree with each other, and crucially, they didn't agree with what had been observed either.
- They are also, crucially, mechanisms for parading and legitimating succession.
- But you must also crucially, stop the T cells from attacking your own body's antigens.
- I think dietary protein is crucially important, especially for a population that is by and large overweight.
- But notice that in order to understand what freedom is on this account, what you crucially need to understand is what makes a slave unfree.
Examples
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The persuasiveness of this thesis, of course, depends crucially on a series of assumptions.
Academic text (1990) -
We're running a Kickstarter, and timing is crucially important.
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But science, the understanding of how things work, what things are, has been crucially important to me.
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And crucially, I want you guys to be able to read current papers in the field.
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Thus, decisions about who will get credit, how much, and on what terms are crucially important social questions.
Academic text (1998) -
So that what is the nature of the symptoms is a crucially important question.
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Therefore, regular physical activity crucially contributes to successful aging by helping people develop and maintain healthy physical function.
Academic text (2015) -
Well, you've raised a crucially difficult point.
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Moreover, their experiences encompassed crucially different phases of the war.
Academic text (2017) -
Because all technologies have unintended effects, acceptance of risk is another attitude crucially linked to technology.
Academic text (1997)
Synonyms
507
1.0
In a way that matters a lot
351
3.5
By a large, noticeable amount that makes a difference
22
3.9
In a way that is very important for something to happen
3
5.5
In the parts that matter most
Very important for the way something turns out
Antonyms
How Important
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Crucially comes from the Latin root crux, which means 'cross' and gave us words like crucifix and crux meaning 'the main point'. So, something done crucially happens at the central, most important moment and can change the result.