{
  "pronunciations": {
    "phonetic": "\u02c8kru\u0283(\u0259)l",
    "listenurl": "/var/www/html/blab/mp3/dic/crucial.mp3",
    "transkor": "\uc911\ub300\ud55c"
  },
  "meansorg": [
    {
      "type": "Adjective",
      "etymologies": "early 18th century (in the sense \u2018cross-shaped\u2019): from French, from Latin crux, cruc- \u2018cross\u2019. The sense \u2018decisive\u2019 is from Francis Bacon's Latin phrase instantia crucis \u2018crucial instance\u2019, which he explained as a metaphor from a crux or fingerpost marking a fork at a crossroad; Newton and Boyle took up the metaphor in experimentum crucis \u2018crucial experiment\u2019",
      "definitions": "decisive or critical, especially in the success or failure of something",
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "pivotal"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "critical"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "key"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "climacteric"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "decisive"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "deciding"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "determining"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "settling"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "testing"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "trying"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "searching"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        "negotiations were at a crucial stage"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "meanskor": [
    {
      "type": "\ud615\uc6a9\uc0ac",
      "etymologies": "18\uc138\uae30 \ucd08 ('\uc2ed\uc790 \ubaa8\uc591'\uc774\ub77c\ub294 \uc758\ubbf8\ub85c): \ud504\ub791\uc2a4\uc5b4, \ub77c\ud2f4\uc5b4, \uc2ed\uc790\uac00 - '\uc2ed\uc790'. '\uacb0\uc815\uc801'\uc774\ub77c\ub294 \uc758\ubbf8\ub294 \ud504\ub780\uc2dc\uc2a4 \ubca0\uc774\ucee8\uc758 \ub77c\ud2f4\uc5b4 \ub2e8\uc5b4 '\uc778\uc2a4\ud134\uc2dc\uc544 \ud06c\ub8e8\uc2dc\uc2a4'\uc5d0\uc11c \uc720\ub798\ud588\uc73c\uba70, \uadf8\ub294 \uad50\ucc28\ub85c\uc5d0 \ud3ec\ud06c\ub97c \ud45c\uc2dc\ud558\ub294 \uc2ed\uc790\ud615 \ub610\ub294 \uc190\uac00\ub77d \uae30\ub465\uc5d0\uc11c \uc740\uc720\ub85c \uc124\uba85\ud588\ub2e4.",
      "definitions": "\ud2b9\ud788 \uc5b4\ub5a4 \uc77c\uc758 \uc131\ud328\uc5d0 \uc788\uc5b4\uc11c \uacb0\uc815\uc801\uc774\uac70\ub098 \ube44\ud310\uc801\uc778.",
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "pivotal"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "critical"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "key"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "climacteric"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "decisive"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "deciding"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "determining"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "settling"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "testing"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "trying"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "searching"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        "\ud611\uc0c1\uc740 \uacb0\uc815\uc801\uc778 \ub2e8\uacc4\uc5d0 \uc788\uc5c8\ub2e4."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "allphrases": [],
  "arrphraseskor": []
}