Chronically

adv

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Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a chronic manner, or to a chronic degree.
  2. 2
    Extremely.

    "They have established themselves as the greatest story of Euro 2016 and it feels almost like a trick of the imagination that it is only four years since they were ranked 133rd in the world. That, however, will not lessen the embarrassment for England, their departing manager and a set of players who chronically under-performed after Wayne Rooney’s early penalty."

Adverb
  1. 1
    in a slowly developing and long lasting manner wordnet
  2. 2
    in a habitual and longstanding manner wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
frequentlyhabituallyinveteratepersistentlyregularlyroutinely

Example

More examples

"He suffers from a chronically exaggerated opinion of himself. Wherever he goes, he thinks no one can hold a candle to him."

Etymology

From chronic + -ally.

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