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Definition

of something bad: long-lasting or happening all the time — 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 younger children had perpetual colds and suffered from chronic ground-itch;
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

chronic = continual

The result was chronic emptiness and boredom.
Susanna Kaysen -- Girl Interrupted

chronic = long-lasting (of something bad)

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

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