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Before the child ever gets to school it will have received crucial, almost irrevocable sex education and this will have been taught by the parents, who are not aware of what they are doing.
Mary Calderone

Meaning of "crucial" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD CRUCIAL

From French, from Latin cruxcross.
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PRONUNCIATION OF CRUCIAL

crucial  [ˈkruːʃəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CRUCIAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Crucial is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES CRUCIAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Crucial

Crucial may refer to: ▪ Crucial Technology, a brand used by semiconductor manufacturer Micron Technology ▪ The Crucial Conspiracy, an album by The Dingees ▪ The Crucial Squeegie Lip, a recording by Ween ▪ Crucial Three, a short-lived band, several of whose members later became famous ▪ "Crucial", by New Edition ▪ Crucial Star, a South Korean hip hop artist...

Definition of crucial in the English dictionary

The first definition of crucial in the dictionary is involving a final or supremely important decision or event; decisive; critical. Other definition of crucial is very important. Crucial is also very good.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CRUCIAL


commercial
kəˈmɜːʃəl
controversial
ˌkɒntrəˈvɜːʃəl
court-martial
ˌkɔːtˈmɑːʃəl
deiseal
ˈdiːʃəl
faucial
ˈfɔːʃəl
fecial
ˈfiːʃəl
Herschel
ˈhɜːʃəl
impartial
ɪmˈpɑːʃəl
inertial
ɪˈnɜːʃəl
infomercial
ˌɪnfəˈmɜːʃəl
marshal
ˈmɑːʃəl
Marshall
ˈmɑːʃəl
martial
ˈmɑːʃəl
noncommercial
ˌnɒnkəˈmɜːʃəl
noncontroversial
ˌnɒnkɒntrəˈvɜːʃəl
partial
ˈpɑːʃəl
preputial
priːˈpjuːʃəl
tertial
ˈtɜːʃəl
uncommercial
ˌʌnkəˈmɜːʃəl
uncontroversial
ˌʌnkɒntrəˈvɜːʃəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CRUCIAL

cruces
cruces ansatae
crucially
crucian
crucian carp
cruciate
cruciate ligament
cruciately
crucible
crucible steel
crucifer
cruciferous
crucified
crucifier
crucifies
crucifix
crucifixion
cruciform
cruciformly
crucify

WORDS THAT END LIKE CRUCIAL

antisocial
artificial
beneficial
especial
extra-special
facial
fiducial
financial
glacial
interracial
judicial
maxillofacial
official
provincial
psychosocial
racial
social
special
superficial
unofficial

Synonyms and antonyms of crucial in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «CRUCIAL»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «crucial» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of crucial

Translation of «crucial» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CRUCIAL

Find out the translation of crucial to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of crucial from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «crucial» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

关键性的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

crucial
570 millions of speakers

English

crucial
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

महत्वपूर्ण
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

عَصِيب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ключевой
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

crucial
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অত্যন্ত গুরুত্বপূর্ণ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

crucial
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Penting
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

entscheidend
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

重大な
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

결정적인
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

wigati
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

rất quan trọng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

முக்கியமான
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

महत्त्वपूर्ण
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

çok önemli
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

cruciale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

decydujący
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

вирішальний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

crucial
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ζωτικός
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

noodsaaklik
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kritisk
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

svært viktig
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of crucial

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CRUCIAL»

The term «crucial» is very widely used and occupies the 7.817 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CRUCIAL» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «crucial» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «crucial» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about crucial

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10 QUOTES WITH «CRUCIAL»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word crucial.
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Kelley Armstrong
Even in horror novels where you know most characters aren't going to make it to the end, it's crucial to have fully fleshed-out characters. If you don't do that, the reader doesn't care what happens to them.
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Avi
To become a novelist, the most crucial thing one must do is read, read and read again - gradually you begin to think like a writer. Ideas are not found - they are shaped.
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Zygmunt Bauman
I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.
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Donald Berwick
It boggles my mind that the same people who cry 'foul' about rationing an instant later argue to reduce health care benefits for the needy, to defund crucial programs of care and prevention, and to shift thousands of dollars of annual costs to people - elders, the poor, the disabled - who are least able to bear them.
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Sidney Blumenthal
It's absolutely crucial for the Democrats to have a sense of their history, of who they are, in order to be able to project their values and stand up for them.
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Mary Bono
With gas prices nationally, and especially in our area, increasingly on the rise, it is more crucial then ever that we take steps to diversify our energy sources and reduce our dependency on foreign oil.
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Mary Calderone
Before the child ever gets to school it will have received crucial, almost irrevocable sex education and this will have been taught by the parents, who are not aware of what they are doing.
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Jack Canfield
I have lived by one crucial principle since I was 24 years old. I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.
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Ray Davies
If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear.
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Karen DeCrow
It is crucial to be healthy, for pain wipes out the possibility for pleasure, and severe pain removes the possibility of turning to the world outside the body. So we must establish the idea that it is important to look well, not to look young.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CRUCIAL»

Discover the use of crucial in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to crucial and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are ...
. This book deserves to take its place as one of the key thought leadership contributions of our time.” —from the Foreword by Stephen R. Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People “The quality of your life comes out of ...
Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, 2011
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Crucial Confrontations: Tools for talking about broken ...
Speak now, pay later. An accountant wonders how to step up to a client who is violating the law. Can you spell unemployment? Family members fret over how to tell granddad that he should no longer drive his car. This is going to get ugly.
Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, 2004
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Crucial Concepts in Argumentation Theory
Each of the essays provides interested readers with an overview of the literature that can serve as a point of departure for further study.
F. H. van Eemeren, 2001
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Dorothea Lange: The Crucial Years, 1930-1946
In 1935, the photographer Dorothea Lange joined Franklin D. Roosevelt's Farm Security Administration project, charged with the task of inventing an iconography that would record and convey the tales of Depression-era America.
Richard Keith Doud, 2009
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Notes on Beethoven: 20 Crucial Works
In the course of elucidating Beethoven and his music in this volume, Wilson questions the traditional practice of dividing Beethoven's life into three periods, discerns his true attitude toward Napoleon, and probes the "heroic" side of ...
Conrad Wilson (music critic.), 2005
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Crucial Issues in Caribbean Religions
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Mozella G. Mitchell, 2006
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Perceiving Crucial Symptoms
Focuses attention on the most crucial symptoms which can guide us easily and quickly in the accurate selection of the remedy in a given case.Potency selection and repetition of the doses has been dealt with.
S. M. Gunavante, 1999
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Very High Energy Cosmic Gamma Radiation: A Crucial Window on ...
Gamma ray astronomy, the branch of high energy astrophysics that studies the sky in energetic ?-ray photons, is destined to play a crucial role in the exploration of nonthermal phenomena in the Universe in their most extreme and violent ...
Felix A. Aharonian, 2004
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Crucial Instances
Though best known for having written novels such as The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth, American author Edith Wharton was also a master of the short story format.
Edith Wharton, 2011
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The Crucial Bridge: The Elijah-Elisha Narrative as an ...
The Elijah-Elisha narrative (1 Kings 16:29-2 Kings 13) is perhaps the most underestimated text in the Bible.
Thomas L. Brodie, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CRUCIAL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term crucial is used in the context of the following news items.
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Election seen as crucial step for Myanmar set for Nov. 8
YANGON, Myanmar — A general election seen as a crucial next step for Myanmar's transition to democracy has been scheduled for Nov. 8. «Boston Herald, Jul 15»
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Appointment of new AFP chief crucial in PHL's territorial defense …
President Benigno Aquino III's appointment of a new Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief is crucial in the implementation of the ... «GMA News, Jul 15»
3
Reducing Building Emissions Crucial to Meeting NYC Climate Goals
Mazria stressed that cities were crucial to addressing climate change. New York City has been a leader on the issue and if the city succeeds at ... «InsideClimate News, Jul 15»
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Subway suspends spokesman Jared Fogle, who's been crucial to …
Jared who? Subway is shelving its relationship with longtime spokesman Jared Fogle, the restaurant chain announced Tuesday afternoon, ... «Los Angeles Times, Jul 15»
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Twenty-nine players who could be crucial this Ashes
Whether or not his seemingly re-solidified technique stands up to the scrutiny of the Australian attack could be absolutely crucial. If Cook fails ... «ESPNcricinfo.com, Jul 15»
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5 Crucial Topics to Watch at 2015 Sun Valley Media Mogul Confab
With the famously tight-lipped Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference underway, the media industry's top moguls who normally spend their ... «TheStreet.com, Jul 15»
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Top quality fruit crucial to success of Australian mango exports to the …
Absolute top quality fruit is the key to developing a strong market for Australian mangoes in the US, according the industry's peak body. «ABC Online, Jul 15»
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Nifty may consolidate around 8300-8550, global cues crucial
Nifty may consolidate around 8300-8550, global cues crucial. Global cues to watch out today are the Euro zone meeting, FOMC minutes and ... «Moneycontrol.com, Jul 15»
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Buhari, Osinbajo, Bring Back Our Girls Group Holding Crucial
President Muhammadu Buhari is currently holding a crucial meeting with members of the Bring Back Our Girl, Punch Online informs. The meeting is holding ... «NAIJ.COM, Jul 15»
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Land Surveyor Auckland – Land Surveying's Crucial Role
The company shares their opinion of land surveying, considering it a crucial factor in the continuous growth of land. Cato Bolam does its part by ... «Scoop.co.nz, Jul 15»

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