English > important: 5 senses > adjective 1| Meaning | 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 2| Meaning | 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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