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chronically
[ kron-ik-lee ]
adverb
- happening constantly or habitually:
Nationally, millions of students are chronically absent every year.
- happening or recurring over an extended period of time (opposed to acutely ):
Monitoring is especially helpful for chronically ill patients wishing to avoid costly hospital stays.
Close to 900 million people worldwide are chronically undernourished.
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Other Words From
- non·chron·i·cal·ly adverb
- sub·chron·i·cal·ly adverb
- un·chron·i·cal·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of chronically1
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Example Sentences
“If done chronically, it can lead to a suppressed immune system, chronic fatigue and memory issues,” he says.
People who live on chronically low incomes know all about budgeting.
They are not for the physically lazy or the chronically, unabashedly out-of-shape.
Labor force participation among the mothers of special needs and chronically ill children is shockingly low.
And as any reader of Paul Krugman knows, these efforts have been chronically slow, late, and ineffective.
He was a tall, rather good-looking young fellow, all wire and whipcord, with a chronically whimsical expression.
Crossness and moroseness, for example, may be due to a dyspeptic condition and a chronically bad liver.
Occasionally a maid will be found who seems chronically unable to set a table right.
Ulcerated opthalmia is another horrible type, that disease in such chronically affected persons may assume.
For the fat man is habitually and chronically in that beatific state which comes from over-eating.
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