Antonyms for crucial

Grammar : Adj

Spell : kroo-shuhl

Phonetic Transcription : ˈkru ʃəl

Definition of crucial

Origin : 1706, "cross-shaped," from French crucial, a medical term for ligaments of the knee (which cross each other), from Latin crux (genitive crucis) "cross" (see cross (n.)). The meaning "decisive, critical" (1830) is extended from a logical term, Instantias Crucis, adopted by Francis Bacon (1620); the notion is of cross fingerboard signposts at forking roads, thus a requirement to choose.

adj critical, important

Example sentences :

Orley slapped his card down; it was a crucial card, the jack.
Extract from : « Goodbye, Dead Man! » by Tom W. Harris

But at any rate, no one will deny that interest is the crucial matter.
Extract from : « A Writer's Recollections (In Two Volumes), Volume II » by Mrs. Humphry Ward

What names will afford the most crucial test of natural fitness?
Extract from : « Cratylus » by Plato

Mrs. Winthrop helped him by her entrance at this crucial point.
Extract from : « David Dunne » by Belle Kanaris Maniates

The following and last experiment that I tried on this occasion was the most crucial.
Extract from : « Telepathy » by W. W. Baggally

I now come to what I consider the crucial point in the whole story.
Extract from : « A Master of Mysteries » by L. T. Meade

At this crucial moment, Pickering and Griswold sought out Burr as an ally.
Extract from : « Union and Democracy » by Allen Johnson

This was the crucial moment in the history of the merchant's son.
Extract from : « The False Chevalier » by William Douw Lighthall

His removal to London was one of the crucial events in the life of Marx.
Extract from : « Socialism » by John Spargo

The two were not idle, but in the crucial moment turned the scale.
Extract from : « The Long Roll » by Mary Johnston

Synonyms for crucial

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