Crucial
['kruːʃ(ə)l] or ['krʊʃəl]
Definition
(adj.) of extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis; 'a crucial moment in his career'; 'a crucial election'; 'a crucial issue for women' .
(adj.) having crucial relevance; 'crucial to the case'; 'relevant testimony' .
Edited by Lenore--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Having the form of a cross; appertaining to a cross; cruciform; intersecting; as, crucial ligaments; a crucial incision.
(a.) Severe; trying or searching, as if bringing to the cross; decisive; as, a crucial test.
Checked by Justin
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Transverse, intersecting.[2]. Severe, searching, trying, decisive.
Typist: Nola
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Searching, probing, severe, discriminating, sharp, critical, piercing
ANT:Superficial, indifferent, mild, uncritical, lenient, lax
Editor: Robert
Definition
adj. testing searching from the practice of marking a testing instance with a cross to draw attention to it.—adj. Cru′ciāte (bot.) arranged in the form of a cross as leaves or petals.
Typed by Larry
Examples
- It was at this point that invention commenced, in order to produce a concrete mixture which would overcome this crucial difficulty. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- For Airy this was a crucial question; but to Adams it seemed unessential, and he failed to reply. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Those are the crucial points upon which the case depends. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- In connection with this problem it is interesting to note that this question of high speed was apparently regarded by all Edison's predecessors as the crucial point. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It was something crucial to him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- If tradition were a reverent record of those crucial moments when men burst through their habits, a love of the past would not be the butt on which every sophomoric radical can practice his wit. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- In crucial issues, like taxation, the Socialists had to submit to the ideas,--the general state of mind of the community. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- We now tried the crucial test of passing the etheric current through the sciatic nerve of a frog just killed. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He was to her the most crucial instance of the existing world, the NE PLUS ULTRA of the world of man as it existed for her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- None of the sheep that had been given the preventive treatment died from the crucial inocu lation; while all those succumbed which had not received previou s treatment. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
Typed by Larry