Word Meanings - IMPORTANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Full of, or burdened by, import; charged with great interests; restless; anxious. Thou hast strength as much As serves to execute a mind very important. Chapman. 2. Carrying or possessing weight or consequence; of valuable content or bearing;

Additional info about word: IMPORTANT

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

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of IMPORTANT)

• Capital
• Chief
• excellent
• important
• cardinal
• principal
• consummate
• high
• Considerable
• Important
• large
• extensive
• Critical
• Nice
• delicate
• exact
• fastidious
• discriminating
• censorious
• accurate
• dubious
• precarious
• ticklish
• crucial
• momentous
• hazardous
• Emphatic
• Earnest
• forcible
• strong
• energetic
• impressive
• positive
• special
• egregious
• Eventful
• Remarkable
• memorable
• signal
• marked
• noted
• critical
• stirring
• notable

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of IMPORTANT)

• Neglect
• drop
• interrupt
• nullify
• undo
• baffle
• frustrate
• mar
• defeat
• spoil

Related words: (words related to IMPORTANT)

• PRINCIPALNESS
  The quality of being principal.
• NOTOTHERIUM
  An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
• NOTUM
  The back.
• CHIEFLESS
  Without a chief or leader.
• CONSUMMATELY
  In a consummate manner; completely. T. Warton.
• ACCURATENESS
  The state or quality of being accurate; accuracy; exactness; nicety; precision.
• MARKETABLENESS
  Quality of being marketable.
• DUBIOUSNESS
  State of being dubious.
• PRINCIPALITY
  preëminence, excellence: cf. F. principalité, principauté. See 1. Sovereignty; supreme power; hence, superiority; predominance; high, or the highest, station. Sir P. Sidney. Your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.
• SIGNALIZE
  1. To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish. It is this passion which drives men to all the ways we see in use of signalizing themselves. Burke. 2. To communicate with by means of a signal; as, a ship
• EXACTOR
  One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands. Jer. Taylor.
• BAFFLE
  1. To practice deceit. Barrow. 2. To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds.
• NOTHINGNESS
  1. Nihility; nonexistence. 2. The state of being of no value; a thing of no value.
• EXACTING
  Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe. "A temper so exacting." T. Arnold -- Ex*act"ing*ly, adv. -- Ex*act"ing*ness, n.
• CRITICALLY
  1. In a critical manner; with nice discernment; accurately; exactly. Critically to discern good writers from bad. Dryden. 2. At a crisis; at a critical time; in a situation. place, or condition of decisive consequence; as, a fortification
• NOTELET
  A little or short note; a billet.
• DELICATE
  1. A choice dainty; a delicacy. With abstinence all delicates he sees. Dryden. 2. A delicate, luxurious, or effeminate person. All the vessels, then, which our delicates have, -- those I mean that would seem to be more fine in their houses than
• EXACTLY
  In an exact manner; precisely according to a rule, standard, or fact; accurately; strictly; correctly; nicely. "Exactly wrought." Shak. His enemies were pleased, for he had acted exactly as their interests required. Bancroft.
• MARKETER
  One who attends a market to buy or sell; one who carries goods to market.
• NOTATION
  1. The act or practice of recording anything by marks, figures, or characters. 2. Any particular system of characters, symbols, or abbreviated expressions used in art or science, to express briefly technical facts, quantities, etc. Esp., the system
• MONOTESSARON
  A single narrative framed from the statements of the four evangelists; a gospel harmony.
• HYPNOTIC
  1. Having the quality of producing sleep; tending to produce sleep; soporific. 2. Of or pertaining to hypnotism; in a state of hypnotism; liable to hypnotism; as, a hypnotic condition.
• SEAMARK
  Any elevated object on land which serves as a guide to mariners; a beacon; a landmark visible from the sea, as a hill, a tree, a steeple, or the like. Shak.
• TRADE-MARK
  A peculiar distinguishing mark or device affixed by a manufacturer or a merchant to his goods, the exclusive right of using which is recognized by law.
• PHONOTYPY
  A method of phonetic printing of the English language, as devised by Mr. Pitman, in which nearly all the ordinary letters and many new forms are employed in order to indicate each elementary sound by a separate character.
• HYPERCRITICALLY
  In a hypercritical manner.
• MONOTHALAMAN
  A foraminifer having but one chamber.
• INEXACTLY
  In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor.
• MONOTONE
  A single unvaried tone or sound.
• HUGUENOTISM
  The religion of the Huguenots in France.
• KNOTWEED
  See KNOT