Crucial

//ˈkɹuː.ʃəl//

Synonyms for "crucial" (114 found)

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Closest matches (23)

critical decisive essential pivotal aboriginal acute basal basic central charged clamorous climacteric compelling crying deciding desperate dire

Adjective(2 words)

all important all-important

Adjective(4 words)

big central consequential critical

Strong matches (34)

Adjective(11 words)

earnest epochful essential extraordinary fatefraught fateful fatesome grave heavy high on the totem pole historic

elemental elementary embryonic emergent essence excellent exigent fundamental generative genetic germinal good grave great high-pressure high-priority imperative imperious important in embryo

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in ovo

Adjective(2 words)

essential important

Related words (57)

indispensable insistent instant kairotic landmark life and death loaded main major material momentous necessary of essence original pregnant pressing primal primary primeval primitive

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primordial pristine protogenic radical rudimentary seminal serious significant strategic underlying urgent vital

Adjective(24 words)

innegligible key life-or-death meaningful necessary noncruciform noted noticeable observable ominous outstanding paramount pertinent pivotal portentous relevant remarkable salient significant top of mind

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unignorable valuable vital weighty

Adjective(1 words)

of the essence

Related word relations

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8 relation types

Antonyms

1 entries

noncrucial

Synonyms

5 entries

decisive essential excellent of essence significant

Related terms

2 entries

cross crux

derived

5 entries

crucial experiment cruciality crucially crucialness noncrucial

etymologically related_to

1 entries

crux

has context

2 entries

jamaica slang

related to

12 entries

critical cross cross shaped cruciate cruciform crux decisive essential important music outcome reggae

similar

14 entries

critical decisive essential important life and death life-and-death life-or-death material of import pivotal polar

Translations

47 translations across 27 languages.

Albanian

2 entries

kryesore adj (extremely important)
kryq adj (cross-shaped)

Arabic

1 entries

حَاسِم adj (extremely important)

Bulgarian

3 entries

критичен adj (extremely important)
кръстовиден adj (cross-shaped)
решителен adj (extremely important)

Catalan

1 entries

crucial adj (extremely important)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries

至关重要的 adj (extremely important)

Cornish

1 entries

troboyntel adj (extremely important)

Czech

2 entries

kritický adj (extremely important)
rozhodující adj (extremely important)

Danish

1 entries

afgørende adj (extremely important)

Finnish

3 entries

elintärkeä adj (extremely important)
ratkaiseva adj (extremely important)
ristinmuotoinen adj (cross-shaped)

French

2 entries

crucial adj (extremely important)
crucial adj (cross-shaped)

German

4 entries

ausschlaggebend adj (extremely important)
entscheidend adj (extremely important)
kreuzförmig adj (cross-shaped)
kritisch adj (extremely important)

Greek

1 entries

κρίσιμος adj (extremely important)

Hebrew

2 entries

חיוני adj (extremely important)
מכריע adj (extremely important)

Hungarian

1 entries

sarkalatos adj (extremely important)

Italian

2 entries

cruciale adj (extremely important)
cruciforme adj (cross-shaped)

Māori

1 entries

waiwai adj (extremely important)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries

avgjørende adj (extremely important)

Persian

1 entries

حیاتی adj (cross-shaped)

Polish

2 entries

krytyczny adj (extremely important)
krzyżowy adj (cross-shaped)

Portuguese

2 entries

crucial adj (extremely important)
crucial adj (cross-shaped)

Romanian

3 entries

crucial adj (extremely important)
cruciform adj (cross-shaped)
decisiv adj (extremely important)

Russian

3 entries

ключево́й adj (extremely important)
крестообра́зный adj (cross-shaped)
реша́ющий adj (extremely important)

Scottish Gaelic

1 entries

deatamach adj (extremely important)

Spanish

1 entries

crucial adj (extremely important)

Swedish

1 entries

avgörande adj (extremely important)

Ukrainian

2 entries

виріша́льний adj (extremely important)
крити́чний adj (extremely important)

Welsh

1 entries

allweddol adj (extremely important)

Sample sentences

16 total sentences available.

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My courage failed me at the crucial moment.

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The negotiations stepped into a crucial phase.

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We are facing a crucial time.

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Today's game will be a crucial battle; the result will be decisive.

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