important

Meanings

Adjective

• of great significance or value
  • "important people"
  • "the important questions of the day"
• important in effect or meaning
• of extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis

Adjective Satellite

• having authority or ascendancy or influence
  • "an important official"
• 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"

Adj

• Having relevant and crucial value; having import.
• Pompous; self-important.

Synonyms

authoritative, big, central, consequential, critical, crucial, epochful, essential, extraordinary, fatefraught, fateful, fatesome, heavy, high on the totem pole, historic, innegligible, key, life-or-death, meaningful, necessary, noted, noticeable, observable, of import, outstanding, paramount, pertinent, relevant, remarkable, salient, significant, unignorable, valuable, vital, weighty

Antonyms

ignorable, inconsequential, insignificant, minor, negligible, noncrucial, petty, slight, trivial, unimportant, unremarkable

Related Words

import, importance, strange