Chronic and Set

Chronic

Chronic adjective - Being such by habit and not likely to change.
Usage example: a chronic smoker who has quit—many, many times

Set and chronic are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Set" instead an adjective "Chronic".

Nearby Words: chronicle, chronicled, chronically

Set

Set adjective - Being in a state of fitness for some experience or action.

Chronic and set are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Chronic" instead an adjective "Set".

Nearby Words: setup, setting

Both words in one sentence

  • Handicapped Badass In The Antagonists the main character, Minnie, is in a wheelchair, suffers chronic pain, can't lift more than five pounds, and doesn't have any superpowers to off-set her disability.
  • Creator / Jason Statham Chronic Hero Syndrome: Many characters try to live within a set of rules so that they won't get too involved in certain events.
  • Film / Anaconda Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Sarone set up one of his partners to die (as seen in the prologue, but we don't learn this til later), then cheerfully betrays his other original partner.
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