crucial
Essential or decisive for determining the outcome or future of something; extremely important; vital.
Adjective 1 meaning
Essential or decisive for determining the outcome or future of something; extremely important; vital.
“The battle of Tali-Ihantala in 1944 is one of the crucial moments in the history of Finland.”
Etymology
1706, from French crucial, a medical term for ligaments of the knee (which cross each other), from Latin crux, crucis (“cross”) (English crux), from the Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, to bend”).
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CRUCIAL at a glance
CRUCIAL has 7 letters and scores 11 points in Scrabble (C 3 + R 1 + U 1 + C 3 + I 1 + A 1 + L 1) and 15 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #4,356 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with crucial
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- TRUCIAL9
- CRUCIAN11
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