important

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.

Examples

• We thought it important for there to be a fire escape at the back of every building.

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

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

Related Words

import, importance, strange