crucial

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Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

more crucial

Superlative

most crucial

1.
Essential or decisive for determining the outcome or future of something; extremely important; vital.
The battle of Tali-Ihantala in 1944 is one of the crucial moments in the history of Finland.
A secure supply of crude oil is crucial for any modern nation, let alone a superpower.
Đồng nghĩa: big, central, consequential, critical, crucial, epochful, essential, extraordinary, fateful, fatefraught, fatesome, heavy, pivotal, high on the totem pole, historic, innegligible, key, life-or-death, meaningful, necessary, noted, noticeable, observable, outstanding, paramount, pertinent, relevant, remarkable, salient, significant, unignorable, valuable, vital, weighty
2.
(archaic)Cruciform or cruciate; cross-shaped.
Đồng nghĩa: noncruciform
3.
(Jamaica, especially, slang)(slang, especially Jamaica, Bermuda) Very good; excellent; particularly applied to reggae music.
Delbert Wilkins is the most crucial pirate radio DJ in Brixton.

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Đồng nghĩa

big central consequential criticalepochfulessential extraordinary fatefulfatefraughtfatesomeheavy pivotalhigh on the totem polehistoricinnegligiblekeylife-or-deathmeaningful necessary noted

Trái nghĩa

noncrucial

Cùng gốc / liên quan

crucialitycruciallycrucialnessnoncrucialcrucial experimentcross crux

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Nguồn gốc từ

ine-pro 1706, from French crucial, a medical term for ligaments of the knee (which cross each other), from Latin crux, crucis (cross) (English crux), from the Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (to turn, to bend).