important

[im·por·tant]

If you have to pass a test to graduate, the test is important. It is vital, necessary, crucial.

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

Adjective
of extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis; "a crucial moment in his career"; "a crucial election"; "a crucial issue for women"

Adjective
of great significance or value; "important people"; "the important questions of the day"

Adjective S.
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"

Adjective S.
having authority or ascendancy or influence; "an important official"; "the captain''s authoritative manner"

Adjective
important in effect or meaning; "a significant change in tax laws"; "a significant change in the Constitution"; "a significant contribution"; "significant details"; "statistically significant"

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v. t.
Full of, or burdened by, import; charged with great interests; restless; anxious.

v. t.
Carrying or possessing weight or consequence; of valuable content or bearing; significant; weighty.

v. t.
Bearing on; forcible; driving.

v. t.
Importunate; pressing; urgent.


Important

Im*por"tant , a. [F. important. See Import, v. t.] 1. Full of, or burdened by, import; charged with great interests; restless; anxious. [Obs.]
Thou hast strength as much As serves to execute a mind very important.
2. Carrying or possessing weight or consequence; of valuable content or bearing; significant; weighty.
Things small as nothing . . . He makes important.
3. Bearing on; forcible; driving. [Obs.]
He fiercely at him flew, And with important outrage him assailed.
4. Importunate; pressing; urgent. [Obs.] Shak. Syn. -- Weighty; momentous; significant; essential; necessary; considerable; influential; serious.

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

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Usage Examples

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

A belief in God is vitally important, not just in show business, but stability in life. You know, to recognize deity is the most important thing that you can do. I mean, it comes to the Ten Commandments. They weren't ten suggestions. They were Ten Commandments.

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

A good basic selling idea, involvement and relevancy, of course, are as important as ever, but in the advertising din of today, unless you make yourself noticed and believed, you ain't got nothin'.

Acting is something I love. It's a great craft that I have a lot of respect for. But I don't think it's any greater challenge than teaching 8-year-olds or any other career. In my life, I try not to make it more important than it is and I just hope that rubs off on the people around me.

A number of scientists with greatly different backgrounds can come up with completely different assessments. The discussions or controversies are endless. Once a year, we try to bring the most important discoverers together to exchange their experiences and knowledge.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

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Other Usage Examples

A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.

A durable, long-term U.S.-China strategic relationship is even more important now than in previous decades. The relationship will continue to grow and prosper to the mutual benefit of all peoples.

A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.

A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important.

A lot of guys have muscles. A lot of strong men in this world. I think it's important to show that even under all this strength there's a fragile side, a side that can be affected.

A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message if her mother expresses clear pleasure at the request and quite another if mommy responds with a curt 'Don't bother me - I've got important work to do.'

A total nuclear freeze is counterproductive - especially now, when technology is rapidly changing and the Soviets have some important strategic advantages.

A more important reason is that the bands will intuitively trust someone they think is a peer, and who speaks fondly of the same formative rock and roll experiences.

A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work.

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