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crucial

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of crucial

of the greatest possible importance

  • water is crucial to our survival
Synonyms of crucial

critical, key, pivotal, vital
Words Related to crucial

decisive, life-and-death (also life-or-death), weighty

basic, elementary, fundamental

essential, indispensable, necessary, requisite

pressing, urgent
Near Antonyms of crucial

inconsequential, insignificant, minor, trivial, unimportant

Synonym Discussion of crucial

acute, critical, crucial mean of uncertain outcome. acute stresses intensification of conditions leading to a culmination or breaking point.
    • an acute housing shortage
critical adds to acute implications of imminent change, of attendant suspense, and of decisiveness in the outcome.
    • the war has entered a critical phase
crucial suggests a dividing of the ways and often a test or trial involving the determination of a future course or direction.
    • a crucial vote

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