crucial
IPA: krˈuʃʌɫ
adjective
- Essential or decisive for determining the outcome or future of something; extremely important; vital.
- (archaic) Cruciform or cruciate; cross-shaped.
- (slang, especially Jamaica, Bermuda) Very good; excellent; particularly applied to reggae music.
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Examples of "crucial" in Sentences
- It is crucial to the plot of the series.
- The concentration is crucial to the test.
- It would be crucially helpful to the article.
- Most crucially, there is the burden of proof.
- The microphone is crucial to the whole process.
- The diaphragm is crucial for breathing and respiration.
- The language in which they write is crucially important.
- Schools are crucially important foci of the communities they serve.
- The source of information is crucially important in human rights work.
- Bear in mind the crucial strategic importance of the Panama Canal in wartime.
- Graham fears deep newsroom cuts would eviscerate local reporting, which he called crucial to "the health of the city."
- BASH: McCain says he's going to Colombia to spotlight his support for free trade which he calls crucial to jump-starting the U.S. economy.
- BASH: McCain says he's going to Colombia to spotlight his support for free trade, which he calls crucial to jump starting the U.S. economy.
- Averroes has, unlike Avicenna, made the way something is picked out by the term crucial in determining what kind of modal proposition is produced.
- France in a bid to drum up support for the plan, which he called a crucial part of efforts to lead the world's poorest continent down the path to economic prosperity.
- BASH: McCain says he's going Colombia to spotlight his support for free trade, which he calls crucial to jump starting the U.S. economy, a sharp difference with Barack Obama.
- BASH: McCain says he's going to Colombia to spotlight his support for free trade, which he calls crucial to jump-starting the U.S. economy -- a sharp difference with Barack Obama.
- Javier Solana, the European Union's foreign-policy representative, welcomed Tuesday what he described as a crucial step in a "historic process" to bring stability to the troubled Caucasus region.
- Mark D. Wallace, president of United Against Nuclear Iran, said in a telephone interview that the group might seek Congressional hearings on Iran's Swift membership, which he described as crucial to the country's economic survival.