Crucial

a.	1.	Having the form of a cross; appertaining to a cross; cruciform; intersecting; as, crucial ligaments; a crucial incision.
	2.	Severe; trying or searching, as if bringing to the cross; decisive; as, a crucial test.

Adj.	1.	crucial - of extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis; "a crucial moment in his career"; "a crucial election"; "a crucial issue for women" Synonyms: important Antonyms: noncrucial - of little importance; not decisive
	2.	crucial - having crucial relevance; "crucial to the case"; "relevant testimony" Synonyms: relevant
	3.	crucial - of the greatest importance; "the all-important subject of disarmament"; "crucial information"; "in chess cool nerves are of the essence" Synonyms: all important, all-important, of the essence, essential
	4.	crucial - having the power or quality of deciding; "the crucial experiment"; "cast the deciding vote"; "the determinative (or determinant) battle" Synonyms: deciding, determinant, determinative, determining

aboriginal, acute, basal, basic, central, charged, clamorous, climacteric, compelling, critical, crying, deciding, decisive, desperate, dire, elemental, elementary, embryonic, emergent, essential, exigent, fundamental, generative, genetic, germinal, high-pressure, high-priority, imperative, imperious, important, in embryo, in ovo, insistent, instant, kairotic, loaded, major, momentous, necessary, original, pivotal, pregnant, pressing, primal, primary, primeval, primitive, primordial, pristine, protogenic, radical, rudimentary, seminal, urgent, vital

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