1 (especially of a disease) lasting for a long time; difficult to cure or get rid of:
chronic bronchitis / arthritis / asthma * the country's chronic unemployment problem * a chronic shortage of housing in rural areas
compareACUTE
2 having had a disease for a long time:
a chronic alcoholic / depressive
3 (BrE, informal) very bad:
The film was just chronic.
chronically adverb:
a hospital for the chronically ill
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