Definitions for Crux

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Crux crux

Spelling: [kruhks]

IPA: /krʌks/

Crux is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 18 anagrams from letters in Crux (crux).

Definitions for Crux

noun

1. a vital, basic, decisive, or pivotal point:
2. a cross.
3. something that torments by its puzzling nature; a perplexing difficulty.
4. Southern Cross.

Origin of Crux

1635-45; Latin: stake, scaffold, or cross used in executions, torment; figurative senses perhaps New Latin crux (interpretum) (commentators') torment, a difficult passage in a text; cf.

Examples for Crux

The crux of the matter is not the date of the next elections, but ensuring that elections are free, fair, and clean.

The crux is new representation: of body, of proportion, of aesthetic ideals.

"That 'somehow' is the crux, my dear Livia," said Mrs. Sinclair.

That, he says, is at the crux of why Pope Francis wants to train more exorcists.

Here, in truth, lies the crux of the greatest problem of all.

At Skulltree was the crux of the situation, as Flagg had insisted, ragefully.

Absolute and perfect union is possible only at the center, the crux, of Being.

And yet, despite the banter, the crux of the issue is the feasibility of it all.

The crux of the problem remains on this side of the Pacific.

This is the crux of the hypnotic dilemma and the answer is far from solved.