Chronic vs Pyrovalerone - What's the difference?
chronic | pyrovalerone |
Of a problem, that continues over an extended period of time.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=8 (label) Prolonged or slow to heal.
Of a person, suffering from an affliction that is prolonged or slow to heal.
Inveterate or habitual.
(label) Very bad, awful.
(label) Extremely serious.
(label) Good, great, as in "wicked".
(slang) Marijuana, typically of high quality.
(medicine) A condition of extended duration, either continuous or marked by frequent recurrence. Sometimes implies a condition which worsens with each recurrence, though that is not inherent in the term.
A psychoactive drug, (RS)-1-(4-methylphenyl)-2-(1-pyrrolidinyl)pentan-1-one , used to treat chronic fatigue and as an anorectic.
As nouns the difference between chronic and pyrovalerone
is that chronic is (slang) marijuana, typically of high quality while pyrovalerone is a psychoactive drug, (rs)-1-(4-methylphenyl)-2-(1-pyrrolidinyl)pentan-1-one , used to treat chronic fatigue and as an anorectic.As an adjective chronic
is of a problem, that continues over an extended period of time.chronic
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Alternative forms
* chronick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=It was a casual sneer, obviously one of a long line. There was hatred behind it, but of a quiet, chronic type, nothing new or unduly virulent, and he was taken aback by the flicker of amazed incredulity that passed over the younger man's ravaged face.}}