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Definition of Important
1. Adjective. Of great significance or value. "The important questions of the day"
Attributes: Importance
Also: Essential, Significant, Valuable
Similar to: All Important, All-important, Crucial, Essential, Of The Essence, Alpha, Beta, Big, Burning, Cardinal, Central, Fundamental, Key, Primal, Chief, Main, Master, Primary, Principal, Consequential, Eventful, Copernican, Distinguished, Grand, Grave, Grievous, Heavy, Weighty, Great, Outstanding, Historic, In-chief, Measurable, Most-valuable, Serious, Strategic
Derivative terms: Importance
Antonyms: Unimportant
2. Adjective. Important in effect or meaning. "Statistically significant"
Attributes: Significance
Also: Of Import, Meaningful
Similar to: Momentous, Epoch-making, Epochal, Earthshaking, World-shaking, World-shattering, Evidential, Evidentiary, Fundamental, Profound, Large, Monumental, Noteworthy, Remarkable, Probative, Probatory, Operative, Portentous, Prodigious
Derivative terms: Importance, Significance
Antonyms: Insignificant
3. Adjective. Of extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis. "A crucial issue for women"
Also: Critical, Decisive, Essential
Similar to: Critical, Decisive, Life-and-death, Life-or-death, Pivotal, Polar
Derivative terms: Cruciality, Importance
Antonyms: Noncrucial
4. Adjective. Having authority or ascendancy or influence. "The captain's authoritative manner"
5. Adjective. Having or suggesting a consciousness of high position. "Took long important strides in the direction of his office"
Definition of Important
1. a. Full of, or burdened by, import; charged with great interests; restless; anxious.
Definition of Important
1. Adjective. Having relevant and crucial value. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Important
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Important
Literary usage of Important
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin by Mysore Geologists' Association (1918)
"No authenticated case of secondary enrichment to any important extent, in tungsten
deposits, has yet been described. It appears improbable, furthermore, ..."
2. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs, Lydia Maria Francis Child (1861)
"Important Era in my Brother's Life. XXVI. Important ERA IN MY BROTHER'S LIFE.
I MISSED the company and kind attentions of my brother William, ..."
3. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve (1899)
"CHAPTER XII Why the 'Americans Raise Some Monuments so Insignificant, and Others
so Important I HAVE just observed, that in democratic ages monuments of the ..."
4. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (1912)
"lThis dock strike is important; they should be low, slow beats on a well-toned
tube; no one must speak or move till the third beat is well over. ..."
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