chronic

Of a problem, that continues over an extended period of time.

chronic unemployment; chronic poverty; chronic anger; chronic life

Peer group support is important to displaced homemakers. The Displaced Homemakers' Network has done excellent work in helping women see that their problems do not have to be chronic.

Prolonged or slow to heal.

chronic cough; chronic headache; chronic illness

So dreadful was the concentration of his glare that it seemed as if it must become chronic and stay like that for ever.

Of a person, suffering from an affliction that is prolonged or slow to heal.

Chronic patients must learn to live with their condition.

Inveterate or habitual.

He's a chronic smoker.

Very bad, awful.

That concert was chronic.

Marijuana, typically of high quality.

It's ironic, I had the brew, she had the chronic

Pimp had been kicking it with one of the young jawns hanging around the apartment. She was real young and had bumpy skin and slum rings on every finger. She told us she was living next door with her grandmother while her mother was in jail, and she took us up to the roof to smoke some chronic.

A condition of extended duration, either continuous or marked by frequent recurrence. Sometimes implies a condition which worsens with each recurrence, though that is not inherent in the term.

A person who is chronic, such as a criminal reoffender or a person with chronic disease.

Wernersvill asylum is now practically filled, and, as it is peopled with able-bodied chronics, there will be but little annual movement of patients.

And then there were the chronics, not only those with marked pathology but life-long sufferers from "indigestion" or migraine, who had been passed around from doctor to doctor with nothing but temporary relief.