The same meaning as the word important

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.4 / 7 votes

1. important

   Synonyms:
   significant, expressive, relevant, main, leading, considerable, great, dignified, influential, weighty, momentous, material, grave, essential

   Antonyms:
   insignificant, trivial, inexpressive, irrelevant, inconsiderable, petty, mean, uninfluential, secondary, unimportant, minor

Princeton’s WordNetRate these synonyms:2.6 / 5 votes

1. important, of importadjective

   of great significance or value

   «important people»; «the important questions of the day»

   Synonyms:
   authoritative, crucial, significant, of import

   Antonyms:
   lightweight, immaterial, fiddling, indifferent, unimportant, uninfluential, little, piffling, piddling, modest, potty, lilliputian, inconsequent, nickel-and-dime, inconsequential, petty, small-time, footling, picayune, trivial, niggling

2. significant, importantadjective

   important in effect or meaning

   «a significant change in tax laws»; «a significant change in the Constitution»; «a significant contribution»; «significant details»; «statistically significant»

   Synonyms:
   substantial, significant, meaning(a), of import, pregnant, authoritative, crucial

   Antonyms:
   footling, immaterial, piffling, lilliputian, unimportant, small-time, nickel-and-dime, modest, inconsequent, little, niggling, inconsequential, fiddling, lightweight, trivial, piddling, uninfluential, indifferent, potty, petty, picayune

3. crucial, importantadjective

   of extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis

   «a crucial moment in his career»; «a crucial election»; «a crucial issue for women»

   Synonyms:
   essential, all important(p), all-important(a), significant, of import, authoritative, crucial, of the essence(p)

   Antonyms:
   piddling, potty, inconsequential, small-time, lightweight, trivial, fiddling, piffling, immaterial, nickel-and-dime, little, lilliputian, inconsequent, niggling, uninfluential, indifferent, modest, petty, picayune, unimportant, footling

4. authoritative, importantadjective

   having authority or ascendancy or influence

   «an important official»; «the captain’s authoritative manner»

   Synonyms:
   authorised, significant, classic, authorized, of import, crucial, authoritative, definitive, classical

   Antonyms:
   uninfluential, little, trivial, unimportant, footling, potty, niggling, modest, nickel-and-dime, inconsequent, picayune, small-time, piddling, inconsequential, immaterial, petty, indifferent, fiddling, lightweight, piffling, lilliputian

5. importantadjective

   having or suggesting a consciousness of high position

   «recited the decree with an important air»; «took long important strides in the direction of his office»

   Synonyms:
   authoritative, crucial, significant, of import

   Antonyms:
   nickel-and-dime, inconsequent, small-time, inconsequential, piffling, fiddling, little, trivial, indifferent, niggling, modest, potty, footling, petty, piddling, immaterial, lilliputian, picayune, lightweight, uninfluential, unimportant

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. necessary

   every other thesaurus lists necessary as one synonym, and cambridge dictionary defines important as “necessary or of great value.”

   “eating is one of the most important things we do, because it’s necessary for life.”

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:4.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for «important»:

   significant, major, importance, substantial, essential, large, vital, key, crucial, importantly, considerable, critical, significance, notices, prominent, great, relevant, valuable, serious, significant, big, sizeable, elham, fundamental, meaningful, main, ilham, strong, extensive, momentous, high, notable

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How to say important in sign language?

How to use important in a sentence?

1. Malcolm X:

   We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct — unity of purpose.

2. De Mistura:

   Women are important to us because they have a lot to tell us about the future of Syria. We will meet with them separately.

3. Mark Campbell:

   Mom is recovering, and we’re working hard to put some weight on the premature cubs, important benchmarks for survival of these cubs are the first week and month of life.

4. Dean Lomax:

   We’re incredibly grateful to Mark, Aaron and Shae for rescuing this important specimen and ensuring that it was saved for science, now that the specimen has been studied, plans are in motion for it to go on public display, to spark the imagination of the next generation of fossil hunters.

5. Caroline Messer:

   It’s unbelievably important for their sense of wellbeing.

• belangrikAfrikaans
• importantAragonese
• مهمArabic
• mühümAzerbaijani
• важныBelarusian
• важенBulgarian
• গুরুত্বপূর্ণBengali
• གལ་ཆེན་པོTibetan Standard
• importantCatalan, Valencian
• důležitýCzech
• pwysigWelsh
• vigtigDanish
• wichtigGerman
• σημαντικόGreek
• gravaEsperanto
• importanteSpanish
• tähtis, olulineEstonian
• garrantzitsuBasque
• مُهِمّ, مهمPersian
• tärkeäFinnish
• importantFrench
• wichtichWestern Frisian
• tábhachtach, mórluachachIrish
• importanteGalician
• חשובHebrew
• महत्वपूर्ण, अहम, जरूरीHindi
• enpòtanHaitian Creole
• fontosHungarian
• կարեւորArmenian
• importanteInterlingua
• pentingIndonesian
• mikilvægurIcelandic
• importanteItalian
• חָשׁוּבHebrew
• 大切, 重要Japanese
• მნიშვნელოვანიGeorgian
• маңыздыKazakh
• សំខាន់Khmer
• ಮುಖ್ಯKannada
• 중요하다, 중대한Korean
• گرنگKurdish
• маанилүү, олуттууKyrgyz
• gravis, magnus, maximusLatin
• wichtegLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
• ສຳຄັນLao
• svarbusLithuanian
• nozīmīgs, svarīgsLatvian
• tiketike, hira, mātuatua, matuaMāori
• важенMacedonian
• അതിപ്രധാനമായ, ഉയര്‍ന്ന പദവിയിലുള്ള, മുഖ്യമായ, ഗൗരവമുള്ളMalayalam
• чухалMongolian
• pentingMalay
• importantiMaltese
• အရေးကြီးBurmese
• महत्वपूर्णNepali
• belangrijkDutch
• alvorlig, betydelig, viktigNorwegian
• importantOccitan
• ଗୁରୁତ୍ବପୂର୍ଣ୍ଣOriya
• ਮਹੱਤਵਪੂਰਨPanjabi, Punjabi
• ważnyPolish
• importantePortuguese
• importantRomanian
• важный, ваRussian
• अत्यावश्यकSanskrit
• važan, важанSerbo-Croatian
• වැදගත්Sinhala, Sinhalese
• dôležitýSlovak
• pomémbenSlovene
• i rëndësishëmAlbanian
• viktig, betydelsefull, ViktigtSwedish
• maarufuSwahili
• பாரதூரம், முக்கியமானTamil
• ముఖ్యమైనTelugu
• муҳимTajik
• เอ้, สำคัญThai
• dahylly, möhümTurkmen
• mahalagáTagalog
• önemli, mühimTurkish
• значний, важний, важливий, ваUkrainian
• اہمUrdu
• muhimUzbek
• quan trọngVietnamese
• veütikVolapük
• impôrtant, consecantWalloon
• וויכטיקYiddish
• 重要Chinese

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Princeton’s WordNetRate this definition:4.3 / 8 votes

1. important, of importadjective

   of great significance or value

   «important people»; «the important questions of the day»

2. significant, importantadjective

   important in effect or meaning

   «a significant change in tax laws»; «a significant change in the Constitution»; «a significant contribution»; «significant details»; «statistically significant»

3. crucial, importantadjective

   of extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis

   «a crucial moment in his career»; «a crucial election»; «a crucial issue for women»

4. authoritative, importantadjective

   having authority or ascendancy or influence

   «an important official»; «the captain’s authoritative manner»

5. importantadjective

   having or suggesting a consciousness of high position

   «recited the decree with an important air»; «took long important strides in the direction of his office»

WiktionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 2 votes

1. importantadjective

   Having relevant and crucial value.

Samuel Johnson’s DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Importantadjective

   Etymology: important, French.

   1. Momentous; weighty; of great consequence.

   The most important and pressing care of a new and vigorous king was his marriage, for mediate establishment of the royal line.
   Henry Wotton.

   This superadds treachery to the crime: ’tis the falsifying the most important trust.
   Decay of Piety.

   O then, what interest shall I make
   To save my last important stake,
   When the most just have cause to quake.
   Wentworth Dillon.

   The great important end that God designs it for, the government of mankind, sufficiently shews the necessity of its being rooted deep in the heart, and put beyond the danger of being torn up by any ordinary violence.
   South.

   Examine how the fashionable practice of the world can be reconciled to the important doctrine of our religion.
   John Rogers.

   Important truths still let your fables hold,
   And moral mysteries with art unfold.
   George Granville.

   Th’ important hour had pass’d unheeded by.
   Irene.

   2. Momentous; forcible; of great efficacy. This seems to be the meaning here.

   He fiercely at him flew,
   And with important outrage him assail’d;
   Who soon prepar’d to field, his sword forth drew,
   And him with equal value countervail’d.
   Fairy Queen.

   3. Importunate. A corrupt use of the word.

   Great France
   My mourning and important tears hath pitied.
   William Shakespeare.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. important

   Importance is a property of entities that matter or make a difference. For example, World War II was an important event and Albert Einstein was an important person because of how they affected the world. There are disagreements in the academic literature about what type of difference is required. According to the causal impact view, something is important if it has a big causal impact on the world. This view is rejected by various theorists, who insist that an additional aspect is required: that the impact in question makes a value difference. This is often understood in terms of how the important thing affects the well-being of people. So on this view, World War II was important, not just because it brought about many wide-ranging changes but because these changes had severe negative impacts on the well-being of the people involved. The difference in question is usually understood counterfactually as the contrast between how the world actually is and how the world would have been without the existence of the important entity. It is often argued that importance claims are context- or domain-dependent. This means that they either explicitly or implicitly assume a certain domain in relation to which something matters. For example, studying for an exam is important in the context of academic success but not in the context of world history. Importance comes in degrees: to be important usually means to matter more within the domain in question than most of the other entities within this domain.
   The term «importance» is often used in overlapping ways with various related terms, such as «meaningfulness», «value», and «caring». Theorists frequently try to elucidate these terms by comparing them to show what they have in common and how they differ. A meaningful life is usually also important in some sense. But meaningfulness has additional requirements: the life should be guided by the agent’s intention and directed at realizing some form of higher purpose. In some contexts, to say that something is important means the same as saying that it is valuable. More generally, however, importance refers not to value itself but to a value difference. This difference may also be negative: some events are important because they have very bad consequences. Importance is often treated as an objective feature in contrast to the subjective attitude of caring about something or ascribing importance to it. Ideally, the two overlap: people subjectively care about things that are objectively important. Nonetheless, the two may come apart when people care about unimportant things or fail to care about important things. Some theorists distinguish between instrumental importance relative to a specific goal in contrast to a form of importance based on intrinsic or final value. A closely related distinction is between importance relative to someone and absolute or unrestricted importance.
   The concept of importance is central to numerous fields and issues. Many people desire to be important or to lead an important life. It has been argued that this is not always a good goal since it can also be realized in a negative way: by causing a lot of harm and thereby making an important but negative value difference. Common desires that are closely related include wanting power, wealth, and fame. In the realm of ethics, the importance of something often determines how one should act towards this thing, for example, by paying attention to it or by protecting it. In this regard, importance is a normative property, meaning that importance claims constitute reasons for actions, emotions, and other attitudes. On a psychological level, considerations of the relative importance of the aspects of a situation help the individual simplify its complexity by only focusing on its most significant features. A central discussion in the context of the meaning of life concerns the question of whether human life is important on the cosmic level. Nihilists and absurdists usually give a negative response to this question. This pessimistic outlook can in some cases cause an existential crisis. In the field of artificial intelligence, implementing artificial reasoning to assess the importance of information poses a significant challenge when trying to deal with the complexity of real-world situations.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:2.3 / 3 votes

1. Importantverb

   full of, or burdened by, import; charged with great interests; restless; anxious

2. Importantverb

   carrying or possessing weight or consequence; of valuable content or bearing; significant; weighty

3. Importantverb

   bearing on; forcible; driving

4. Importantverb

   importunate; pressing; urgent

Editors ContributionRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. important

   Data, facts, information, research or statistics a person, business, form of unity government, group or organization is made aware of.

   The new training dates were posted on the website and emailed to all athletes as some had changed and it was important they were communicated and seen.

   Submitted by MaryC on May 19, 2016  

2. ---

   important

   Information communicated that requires action or attention.

   The government ensured the new tax rules were communicated across the media and emailed to all registered business and individuals as they were important.

   Submitted by MaryC on May 19, 2016  

3. ---

   important

   The well-being of a person we love.

   We place the important value of every human being on planet earth.

   Submitted by MaryC on April 26, 2020  

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word ‘important’ in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #212

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word ‘important’ in Written Corpus Frequency: #338

3. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word ‘important’ in Adjectives Frequency: #12

How to pronounce important?

How to say important in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of important in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of important in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of important in a Sentence

1. Tony Abbott:

   Australia is an energy super power and energy security is very important to Ukraine, particularly given its current vulnerability to supply.

2. Zoe Salzman:

   It is very clear on the most important points.

3. John Husted:

   While today’s ruling reaffirms that the process Ohio has used for over two decades is constitutional and in line with state and federal law, the best news is that we can put another wasteful lawsuit behind us and focus on the important work of running elections in Ohio.

4. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp:

   Social distancing works, and as we open up our economy it will be more important than ever that we keep social distancing as lives and livelihoods depend on it.

5. Daniel Russel:

   Just as this week’s ‘tactical weapon’ test was a signal to warn Trump that his much-vaunted ‘freeze’ is in jeopardy, the verbal attack on Pompeo is meant to encourage Trump to ignore his hardline advisers and make a deal with his ‘friend’ Kim Jong Un, as long as the North Koreans believe they can flatter and dupe the U.S. president into making important concessions … they will resist dealing with less gullible and more demanding subordinate U.S. officials.

Popularity rank by frequency of use

• belangrikAfrikaans
• importantAragonese
• مهمArabic
• mühümAzerbaijani
• важныBelarusian
• важенBulgarian
• গুরুত্বপূর্ণBengali
• གལ་ཆེན་པོTibetan Standard
• importantCatalan, Valencian
• důležitýCzech
• pwysigWelsh
• vigtigDanish
• wichtigGerman
• σημαντικόGreek
• gravaEsperanto
• importanteSpanish
• tähtis, olulineEstonian
• garrantzitsuBasque
• مُهِمّ, مهمPersian
• tärkeäFinnish
• importantFrench
• wichtichWestern Frisian
• tábhachtach, mórluachachIrish
• importanteGalician
• חשובHebrew
• महत्वपूर्ण, अहम, जरूरीHindi
• enpòtanHaitian Creole
• fontosHungarian
• կարեւորArmenian
• importanteInterlingua
• pentingIndonesian
• mikilvægurIcelandic
• importanteItalian
• חָשׁוּבHebrew
• 大切, 重要Japanese
• მნიშვნელოვანიGeorgian
• маңыздыKazakh
• សំខាន់Khmer
• ಮುಖ್ಯKannada
• 중요하다, 중대한Korean
• گرنگKurdish
• маанилүү, олуттууKyrgyz
• gravis, magnus, maximusLatin
• wichtegLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
• ສຳຄັນLao
• svarbusLithuanian
• nozīmīgs, svarīgsLatvian
• tiketike, hira, mātuatua, matuaMāori
• важенMacedonian
• അതിപ്രധാനമായ, ഉയര്‍ന്ന പദവിയിലുള്ള, മുഖ്യമായ, ഗൗരവമുള്ളMalayalam
• чухалMongolian
• pentingMalay
• importantiMaltese
• အရေးကြီးBurmese
• महत्वपूर्णNepali
• belangrijkDutch
• alvorlig, betydelig, viktigNorwegian
• importantOccitan
• ଗୁରୁତ୍ବପୂର୍ଣ୍ଣOriya
• ਮਹੱਤਵਪੂਰਨPanjabi, Punjabi
• ważnyPolish
• importantePortuguese
• importantRomanian
• важный, ваRussian
• अत्यावश्यकSanskrit
• važan, важанSerbo-Croatian
• වැදගත්Sinhala, Sinhalese
• dôležitýSlovak
• pomémbenSlovene
• i rëndësishëmAlbanian
• viktig, betydelsefull, ViktigtSwedish
• maarufuSwahili
• பாரதூரம், முக்கியமானTamil
• ముఖ్యమైనTelugu
• муҳимTajik
• เอ้, สำคัญThai
• dahylly, möhümTurkmen
• mahalagáTagalog
• önemli, mühimTurkish
• значний, важний, важливий, ваUkrainian
• اہمUrdu
• muhimUzbek
• quan trọngVietnamese
• veütikVolapük
• impôrtant, consecantWalloon
• וויכטיקYiddish
• 重要Chinese

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