Word Meanings - IMPORTANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. The quality or state of being important; consequence; weight; moment; significance. Thy own importance know, Nor bound thy narrow views to things below. Pope. 2. Subject; matter. Upon importance of so slight and trivial a nature. Shak.
Additional info about word: IMPORTANCE
1. The quality or state of being important; consequence; weight; moment; significance. Thy own importance know, Nor bound thy narrow views to things below. Pope. 2. Subject; matter. Upon importance of so slight and trivial a nature. Shak. 3. Import; meaning; significance. The wisest beholder could not say if the importance were joy or sorrow. Shak. 4. Importunity; solicitation. At our importance hither is he come. Shak.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of IMPORTANCE)
- Account
- Narration
- report
- rehearsal
- story
- statement
- narrative
- recital
- relation
- description
- motive
- value
- importance
- advantage
- ground
- reason
- profit
- Consequence
- Effect
- issue
- result
- inference
- coherence
- deduction
- conclusion
- outcome
- note
- moment
- dignity
- Consideration
- Importance
- suspect
- consequence
- inducement
- compensation
- subsidy
- remuneration
- Dody
- tangible
- substantial
- corporal
- physical
- ponderable
- Moment
- Instant
- second
- twinkling
- trice
- weight
- force
- gravity
- avail
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of IMPORTANCE)
- Disesteem
- misestimate
- mystify
- understate
- undervalue
- perplex
- darken
- Fail
- fall
- disappoint
- betray
- Silence
- hush
- suppress
- misreport
- misrepresent
- miarelate
- falsify
- Originate
- arise
- precede
- spring
- commence
- start
- begin
- Miscompute
- disesteem
- disregard
- vilipend
- underrate
- underestimate
- despise
- contemn
- cheapen
- vilify
Related words: (words related to IMPORTANCE)
- SECOND
1. Immediately following the first; next to the first in order of place or time; hence, occuring again; another; other. And he slept and dreamed the second time. Gen. xli. 5. 2. Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, - DISREGARDFULLY
Negligently; heedlessly. - FORCE
To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak. - DARKEN
Etym: 1. To make dark or black; to deprite of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room. They covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. Ex. x. 15. So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill. Milton. - INSTANT
upon, to press upon; pref. in- in, on + stare to stand: cf. F. in. 1. Pressing; urgent; importunate; earnest. Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer. Rom. xii. 12. I am beginning to be very instant for some sort - AVAILABLENESS
1. Competent power; validity; efficacy; as, the availableness of a title. 2. Quality of being available; capability of being used for the purpose intended. Sir M. Hale. - SPREADINGLY
, adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton. - RELATIONSHIP
The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason. - SPRINGBOARD
An elastic board, secured at the ends, or at one end, often by elastic supports, used in performing feats of agility or in exercising. - GROUNDWORK
That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden. - ACCOUNTANTSHIP
The office or employment of an accountant. - SPRINGE
A noose fastened to an elastic body, and drawn close with a sudden spring, whereby it catches a bird or other animal; a gin; a snare. As a woodcock to mine own springe. Shak. - SPRINGAL
An ancient military engine for casting stones and arrows by means of a spring. - GROUNDEN
p. p. of Grind. Chaucer. - STORY-WRITER
1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17. - REASONING
1. The act or process of adducing a reason or reasons; manner of presenting one's reasons. 2. That which is offered in argument; proofs or reasons when arranged and developed; course of argument. His reasoning was sufficiently profound. Macaulay. - MISCOMPUTE
To compute erroneously. Sir T. Browne. - ACCOUNTANCY
The art or employment of an accountant. - STARTLINGLY
In a startling manner. - SPRINT
To run very rapidly; to run at full speed. A runner should be able to sprint the whole way. Encyc. Brit. (more info) Etym: - DISPROPORTIONALLY
In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally. - PARAVAIL
At the bottom; lowest. Cowell. Note: In feudal law, the tenant paravail is the lowest tenant of the fee, or he who is immediate tenant to one who holds over of another. Wharton. - MISGROUND
To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall. - INCONSEQUENCE
The quality or state of being inconsequent; want of just or logical inference or argument; inconclusiveness. Bp. Stillingfleet. Strange, that you should not see the inconsequence of your own reasoning! Bp. Hurd. - FRICATRICE
A lewd woman; a harlot. B. Jonson. - COUNTER WEIGHT
A counterpoise. - UNPERPLEX
To free from perplexity. Donne. - DISPROPORTIONABLE
Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv. - DISPROPORTIONALITY
The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More. - MISCONCLUSION
An erroneous inference or conclusion. Bp. Hall.