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| ADJECTIVE | 1 | important, of import | Of great significance or value |
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| 2 | important, significant | Important in effect or meaning | |
| 3 | important, crucial | Of extreme importance | |
| 4 | important, authoritative | Having authority or ascendancy or influence | |
| 5 | important | Having or suggesting a consciousness of high position |
| Sounds | ihmpao'rtahnt |
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| Rhymes | abandonment, abatement, aberrant, and 654 more rhymes in ahnt at the HyperDic website... |
| Meaning | Of great significance or value. |
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| Examples | "important people"; "the important questions of the day" |
| Synonyms | of import |
| Attribute of | importance |
| Similar | all-important, all important, crucial, essential, of the essence; alpha; beta; arch; big; burning; cardinal, central, fundamental, key, primal; chief, main, primary, principal; consequential, eventful; Copernican; distinguished, eminent, great; grave, grievous, heavy, weighty; historic; in-chief; measurable; most-valuable; serious; strategic; useful, valuable, of value |
| See also | essential; significant, important; valuable |
| Contrary | unimportant |
| Adverbs | importantly; importantly |
| Meaning | Important in effect or meaning. |
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| Synonyms | significant |
| Attribute of | significance |
| Similar | big, momentous; epochal, epoch-making; earthshaking, world-shaking, world-shattering; evidential, evidentiary; fundamental, profound; large; monumental; noteworthy, remarkable; probative; operative, key; portentous, prodigious |
| See also | important, of import; meaningful |
| Contrary | insignificant, unimportant |
| Meaning | Of extreme importance. Vital to the resolution of a crisis. |
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| Synonyms | crucial |
| Similar | critical, decisive; life-and-death, life-or-death; pivotal, polar |
| See also | critical; decisive; essential |
| Contrary | noncrucial |
| Meaning | Having authority or ascendancy or influence. |
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| Examples | "an important official" |
| Synonyms | authoritative |
| Similar to | influential |
| Meaning | Having or suggesting a consciousness of high position. |
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| Examples | "recited the decree with an important air"; "took long important strides in the direction of his office" |
| Similar to | immodest |