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.
Cruciform or cruciate; cross-shaped.
Very good; excellent; particularly applied to reggae music.
Delbert Wilkins is the most crucial pirate radio DJ in Brixton.
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...
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