Usually means: Essential, decisive in determining outcome.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word crucial:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. crucial: Merriam-Webster
  2. crucial: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. crucial: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. crucial: Collins English Dictionary
  5. crucial: Vocabulary.com
  6. Crucial, crucial: Wordnik
  7. crucial: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. crucial: Wiktionary
  9. crucial: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. crucial: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. crucial: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Crucial, crucial: Dictionary.com
  13. crucial: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. crucial: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Crucial (song), Crucial: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Crucial: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. crucial: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. crucial: Rhymezone
  19. crucial, crucial(e) (-aux): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. crucial: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. crucial: FreeDictionary.org
  22. crucial: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. crucial: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. Crucial: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  25. crucial: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. crucial: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. crucial: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. crucial: Medical dictionary

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. crucial: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. crucial: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Crucial: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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.

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