crucial
Meaning of crucial
- decisive or critical, especially in the success or failure of something.
negotiations were at a crucial stage
early 18th century (in the sense ‘cross-shaped’): from French, from Latin crux, cruc- ‘cross’. The sense ‘decisive’ is from Francis Bacon's Latin phrase instantia crucis ‘crucial instance’, which he explained as a metaphor from a crux or fingerpost marking a fork at a crossroad; Newton and Boyle took up the metaphor in experimentum crucis ‘crucial experiment’.
Information about crucial
- It is an adjective.
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- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- crucial is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
crucial synonyms
Meaning important:
Meaning all-important:
Meaning deciding:
deciding, determinant, determinative, determining
Meaning of crucial importance in relation to the development or success of something else:
Meaning having a decisive or crucial importance in the success, failure, or existence of something:
Meaning of crucial importance:
Meaning having extreme and far-reaching implications or results; critical:
Meaning settling an issue; producing a definite result:
Meaning resolve or reach an agreement about (an argument or problem):
Meaning revealing a person's capabilities by putting them under strain; challenging:
Meaning difficult or annoying; hard to endure:
Meaning thoroughly scrutinizing, especially in a disconcerting way:
Meaning important, serious, or significant:
Meaning sufficiently great or important to be worthy of attention; noteworthy:
Meaning having great influence on someone or something:
Meaning of great importance or significance, especially in having a bearing on future events:
Meaning following as a result or effect:
Meaning of great seriousness and importance:
Meaning of considerable importance or seriousness:
Meaning famous or important in history, or potentially so:
crucial antonyms
Meaning lesser in importance, seriousness, or significance:
Translation of crucial
- Italian: cruciale, essenziale, vitale
- German: entscheidend, ausschlaggebend, kritisch
- Spanish: crucial, crítico, crítica, primordial
- French: crucial, primordial
- Portuguese: essencial, crucial, crítico
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