paramount

Plural: paramounts

Adjective Satellite

• having superior power and influence

Adj

• Highest, supreme; also, chief, leading, pre-eminent.
• Of the highest importance.
• Of a law, right, etc.: having precedence over or superior to another.

Noun

• A chief or superior; (specifically, chiefly South Africa) an African chief having the highest status in a region; a paramount chief.
• A supreme ruler; an overlord; (specifically, historical) in the feudal system, a landowner who did not derive ownership of the land from anyone else, and who was able to grant fees to others; a lord paramount.

Examples

• Getting those credit cards paid off is paramount.

Synonyms

overriding, predominant, predominate, preponderant, preponderating, big, central, consequential, critical, crowning, crucial, epochful, essential, extraordinary, fatefraught, fateful, fatesome, foremost, greater, heavy, high on the totem pole, higher, historic, imperative, innegligible, key, life-or-death, major, meaningful, necessary, noted, noticeable, observable, outstanding, paramount, pertinent, preeminent, relevant, remarkable, salient, significant, superior, supreme, unignorable, utmost, valuable, vaulting, vital, weighty

Antonyms

consequential, important, noteworthy, paravail, significant, weighty

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