English > important: 5 senses > adjective 1Meaning | Of great significance / significance or value. |
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Examples | - "important people"
- "the important questions of the day"
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Synonym | of import |
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Attribute of | importance | The quality of being important and worthy of note |
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Narrower | Copernican | Of radical or major importance |
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all-important, all important, crucial, essential, of the essence | Of the greatest importance |
alpha | First in order of importance |
beta | Second in order of importance |
big | significant / significant / significant / significant |
burning | Of immediate import |
cardinal, central, fundamental, key, primal | Serving as an essential component |
chief, main, primary, principal, master | Most important element |
consequential, eventful | Having important issues or results |
distinguished | (used of persons) standing above others in character or attainment or reputation |
grand | The most important and magnificent in adornment |
grave, grievous, heavy, weighty | Of great gravity or crucial import |
great, outstanding | Of major significance / significance or importance |
historic | Important in history |
in-chief | Indicating the head of a staff |
measurable | Of distinguished importance |
most-valuable | Designating the player judged to be the most important to the sport |
serious | Of great consequence |
strategic | Highly important to or an integral part of a strategy or plan of action especially in war |
See also | essential | Basic and fundamental |
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significant, important | Important in effect or meaning / meaning |
valuable | Having great material or monetary value especially for use or exchange |
Opposite | unimportant | not important |
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Spanish | importante |
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Catalan | important |
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Nouns | importance | the quality of being important and worthy of note |
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Adverbs | importantly | in an important way |
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importantly | in an important way or to an important degree |
English > important: 5 senses > adjective 2Meaning | Important in effect or meaning / meaning. |
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Synonym | significant |
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Attribute of | significance | The quality of being significant / significant / significant |
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Narrower | earthshaking, world-shaking, world-shattering | sufficiently significant to affect the whole world |
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epochal, epoch-making | Highly significant or important especially bringing about or marking the beginning of a new development or era |
evidential, evidentiary | Serving as or based on evidence |
fundamental, profound | Far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something |
large | Fairly large or important in effect |
momentous | Of very great significance |
monumental | Of outstanding significance |
noteworthy, remarkable, notable | worthy of notice |
operative | effective |
portentous, prodigious | Of momentous or ominous significance |
probative, probatory | tending to prove a particular proposition or to persuade you of the truth of an allegation |
See also | important, of import | Of great significance / significance or value |
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meaningful | Having a meaning / meaning or purpose |
Opposite | insignificant, unimportant | devoid of importance, meaning, or force |
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Spanish | importante, significante, significativo |
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Catalan | important, significant, significatiu |
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Nouns | importance | the quality of being important and worthy of note |
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