crucial

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. 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.
  2. Cruciform or cruciate; cross-shaped. archaic
  3. Very good; excellent; particularly applied to reggae music. Jamaica,especially,slang
    — Delbert Wilkins is the most crucial pirate radio DJ in Brixton.

词形变化

more crucial comparative most crucial superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
crucial experiment cruciality crucially crucialness noncrucial
相关词
cross crux

词源

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”).
The meaning “decisive, critical” is extended from a logical term, Instantias Crucis, adopted by Francis Bacon in his influential Novum Organum (1620); the notion is of cross fingerboard signposts at forking roads, thus a requirement to choose.
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