'Crucial' definitions:
Definition of 'crucial'
From: WordNet
adjective
Of extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis; "a crucial moment in his career"; "a crucial election"; "a crucial issue for women" [syn: crucial, important] [ant: noncrucial]
adjective
Having crucial relevance; "crucial to the case"; "relevant testimony"
adjective
Of the greatest importance; "the all-important subject of disarmament"; "crucial information"; "in chess cool nerves are of the essence" [syn: all-important(a), all important(p), crucial, essential, of the essence(p)]
Definition of 'Crucial'
From: GCIDE
- Crucial \Cru"cial\ (kr?"shal), a. [F. crucial, fr. L. crux, crucis, cross, torture. See Cross.]
- 1. Having the form of a cross; appertaining to a cross; cruciform; intersecting; as, crucial ligaments; a crucial incision. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Severe; trying or searching, as if bringing to the cross; decisive; as, a crucial test. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'crucial'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aboriginal,
- acute,
- basal,
- basic,
- central,
- charged,
- clamorous,
- climacteric,
- compelling,
- critical,
- crying,
- deciding,
- decisive,
- desperate,
- dire,
- elemental,
- elementary,
- embryonic,
- emergent,
- essential,
- exigent,
- fundamental,
- generative,
- genetic,
- germinal,
- high-pressure,
- high-priority,
- imperative,
- imperious,
- important,
- in embryo,
- in ovo,
- insistent,
- instant,
- kairotic,
- loaded,
- major,
- momentous,
- necessary,
- original,
- pivotal,
- pregnant,
- pressing,
- primal,
- primary,
- primeval,
- primitive,
- primordial,
- pristine,
- protogenic,
- radical,
- rudimentary,
- seminal,
- urgent,
- vital