CRUCIAL meaning: Essential, decisive in determining outcome

We found 34 dictionaries that define the word crucial:

General (27 matching dictionaries)

crucial: Merriam-Webster.com
crucial: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
crucial: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
crucial: Collins English Dictionary
crucial: Vocabulary.com
Crucial, crucial: Wordnik
crucial: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
crucial: Wiktionary
crucial: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
crucial: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
crucial: Infoplease Dictionary
Crucial, crucial: Dictionary.com
crucial: Online Etymology Dictionary
crucial: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Crucial (song), Crucial: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Crucial: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
crucial: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
crucial: Rhymezone
crucial, crucial(e) (-aux): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
crucial: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
crucial: Free Dictionary
crucial: Mnemonic Dictionary
crucial: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
crucial: Dictionary/thesaurus
Crucial: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Business (1 matching dictionary)

crucial: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

crucial: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)

Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
crucial: Medical dictionary

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)

crucial: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
crucial: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
Crucial: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ adjective:  Essential or decisive for determining the outcome or future of something; extremely important; vital.
▸ adjective:  (archaic) Cruciform or cruciate; cross-shaped.
▸ adjective:  (slang, especially Jamaica, Bermuda) Very good; excellent; particularly applied to reggae music.

Opposite:

insignificant, trivial, minor, negligible, unimportant

Types:

important, essential, necessary, vital, pivotal, key, decisive, central, more...

Phrases:

crucial point, crucial anastomosis, crucial bandage, something crucial, opposite of crucial, more...

Colors:

red, black, burgundy, charcoal, emerald, gold, silver, maroon, indigo, crimson

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