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crucial
[ kroo-shuhl ]
adjective
- involving an extremely important decision or result; decisive; critical:
a crucial experiment.
Synonyms: significant, essential, vital, momentous
- severe; trying.
- of the form of a cross; cross-shaped.
crucial
/ ˈkruːʃəl /
adjective
- involving a final or supremely important decision or event; decisive; critical
- informal.very important
- slang.very good
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Derived Forms
- ˈcrucially, adverb
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Other Words From
- cru·ci·al·i·ty [kroo-shee-, al, -i-tee, kroo-, shal, -], noun
- crucial·ly adverb
- non·crucial adjective
- non·crucial·ly adverb
- pre·crucial adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of crucial1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of crucial1
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Example Sentences
All it needs is one more “pipe” to select and transmit the crucial information.
During two years in Iranian custody, Abdolhamid provided crucial details of how Jundullah operated.
Some pilots consider the infrared marker to be crucial to the close air-support mission to support ground troops.
And some of the most compelling statements came from a powerful, crucial set of equality allies: corporations.
From the looks of it, mistletoe is a keystone species and plays a crucial role in that forest ecosystem.
A crucial question, very much affected by what the Admiral told me last night.
"I'm so very sorry," Anson said, slightly flustered, remembering that this was always the crucial moment in a sale.
Colonel Mildmay considered; they were approaching the crucial point, and he took his resolution.
Bernadotte moved slowly, and did not render his force effective at the crucial moment.
Some of my green men had funked just at the crucial moment, and I had all but shot one.
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