Crucial

Adjective

 * 1) Being essential or decisive for determining the outcome or future of something; extremely important.
 * The battle of Tali-Ihantala in 1944 is one of the crucial moments in the history of Finland.
 * A secure supply of crude oil is crucial for any modern nation, let alone a superpower.
 * 1)  Cruciform or cruciate; cross-shaped.
 * 2)  Term of approval, particularly when applied to reggae music.
 * Delbert Wilkins is the most crucial pirate radio DJ in Brixton.

Derived terms

 * crucial experiment

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
1706, from crucial:, a medical term for ligaments of the knee (which cross each other), from Latin crux:. The meaning "decisive, critical" 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.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:, критичен
 * Danish:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:, , ,
 * Hebrew: מכריע, חיוני
 * Italian:


 * Polish: krytyczny
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: crucial, decisiv
 * Russian: решающий, ключевой
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian: кръстовиден
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Italian:


 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: cruciform
 * Russian: крестообразный


 * : crucial

Adjective

 * 1) crucial