Protracted vs Chronic - What's the difference?
protracted | chronic |
(protract)
Lasting for a long time or longer than expected or usual.
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.
As adjectives the difference between protracted and chronic
is that protracted is lasting for a long time or longer than expected or usual while chronic is of a problem, that continues over an extended period of time.As a verb protracted
is (protract).As a noun chronic is
(slang) marijuana, typically of high quality.protracted
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- a protracted and bitter dispute
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.}}