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Definition
of something bad: long-lasting — especially of disease- chronic back pain
chronic = long-lasting
- a chronic shortage of funds
- chronic uneasiness
- chronic fatigue syndrome
- A sort of chronic remorse went with him everywhere, although not strong enough to make any decided change in his course; and this very remorse reacted again into indulgence.Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Uncle Tom's Cabin
- The result was chronic emptiness and boredom.Susanna Kaysen -- Girl Interrupted
- The Outside dogs, whose digestions had not been trained by chronic famine to make the most of little, had voracious appetites.Jack London -- The Call of the Wild
- Through the other half of the night, the doctor's calls came to him over the telephone-all chronic cases.Eudora Welty -- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
- He was beginning to find, in his wretched clothing and meager state of body, that people took him for a chronic type of bum and beggar.Theodore Dreiser -- Sister Carrie
- The effects of swainsonine poisoning are chronic, the alkaloid rarely kills outright.Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
- And the tribe of chronic masturbators.Sherman Alexie -- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
- 'Part of it is the PTSD-Peter's response to chronic victimization.Jodi Picoult -- Nineteen Minutes
- What if it were possible for autism— for mind-blindness—to be a temporary condition instead of a chronic one?Malcolm Gladwell -- Blink
- "No," says Bill, "nothing chronic except malaria and accidents.O. Henry -- The Ransom of Red Chief
- It was a chronic attribute, pervading his entire person.Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
- The chronic scarcity of officers strongly affected my duties in Blackie's Blackguards.Robert A. Heinlein -- Starship Troopers
- The immediate cause was the serious and probably chronic illness of Tom's mother.F. Scott Fitzgerald -- This Side of Paradise
- One chronic complaint was that the Imperium ignored "vital questions"—and so it did.Robert A. Heinlein -- Glory Road
- His chronic cough had taken on a jagged edge, an element of irresponsibility.Don DeLillo -- White Noise
- To put it kindly, perhaps accurately, you were known to have a chronic illness called alcoholism.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
chronic = long-lasting (of something bad)