chronically

[kron-ik-lee]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adverb

happening constantly or habitually.
Nationally, millions of students are chronically absent every year.
happening or recurring over an extended period of time (opposed toacutely ).
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 Word Forms

nonchronically adverb
subchronically adverb
unchronically adverb

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Word History and Origins

Origin of chronically¹

chronic ( def. ) + -ally ( def. )

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Marnie was ambitious in the way that involves talking about your ambitions but doing little to achieve them besides chronically posting things online and hoping for the best.

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More than two decades ago, he was convicted of murdering his chronically ill two-year-old daughter Nikki.

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“First, when Newsom was chronically unprepared to address the January wildfires, and just recently when Newsom refused to stop violent, left-wing rioters from attacking federal law enforcement.”

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He isn’t chronically concerned with the physical details of who he dates or their salary, only their potential connection and the value they could bring to his life.

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Business groups are largely supportive of these ambitious plans and the chancellor will hope it persuades firms to spend some of their own money to boost business investment, which has been chronically low.

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chronic chronic disease

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