Synonyms of the word

important

• adj. Having relevant and crucial value.

all-important

• adj. Very important; vital or crucial.

alpha

• n. The name of the first letter of the Greek alphabet (Α, α), followed by beta. In the Latin alphabet it…
• n. Latin alpha.
• n. (sciences) The name of the symbols Α and α used in science and mathematics, often interchangeable with…
• n. (finance) The return of a given asset or portfolio adjusted for systematic risk.
• n. A person, especially a male, who is dominant, successful and attractive; (see alpha male).
• n. (informal, abbreviation) Alphabet.
• n. (software engineering) The first versions of a program, usually only available to the developer, and only…
• n. (computer graphics) The level of translucency of a color, as determined by the alpha channel.
• n. (statistics) The significance level if a statistical test; the alpha level.
• adj. Designates the first in an order of precedence.
• adj. (of person, object or action) exhibiting characteristics of the alpha male/female archetype.
• adj. (astronomy) Designates some bright star, usually the brightest star, of a constellation.

authoritative

• adj. Arising or originating from a figure of authority.
• adj. Highly accurate or definitive; treated or worthy of treatment as a scholarly authority.
• adj. Having a commanding style.

beta

• adj. Identifying a molecular position in an organic chemical compound.
• adj. Designates the second in an order of precedence.
• adj. (computing) Preliminary; prerelease. Refers to an incomplete version of a product released for initial…
• adj. (of a person, object or action) associated with the beta male/female archetype.
• n. The name of the second letter of the Greek alphabet (Β, β), preceded by alpha (Α, α) and followed by gamma,…
• n. Used in marking scheme: α, β, γ or α+, α, α-, β etc.
• n. (finance) Average sensitivity of a security's price to overall securities market prices.
• n. (computing) The phase of development after alpha testing and before launch, in which software, while not…
• n. (computing) A computer program in such a phase; a preliminary version.
• n. (climbing) Information about a route which may aid someone in climbing it.
• n. (physics) A beta particle or beta ray.
• n. A beta fish, of the genus Betta.
• n. A beta male.
• v. (computing) To preliminarily release computer software for initial testing prior to final release.
• v. (chiefly Internet) To beta-read a text.

big

• adj. Of great size, large.
• adj. (of an industry or other field) Thought to have undue influence.
• adj. Popular.
• adj. (informal) Adult.
• adj. (informal) Fat.
• adj. (informal) Important or significant.
• adj. (informal, with on) Enthusiastic (about).
• adj. (informal) Mature, conscientious, principled.
• adj. (informal) Well-endowed, possessing large breasts in the case of a woman or a large penis in the case…
• adj. (sometimes figuratively) Large with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce.
• adj. (informal) Used as an intensifier, especially of negative-valence nouns.
• adj. (of a city) populous.
• adv. In a loud manner.
• adv. In a boasting manner.
• adv. In a large amount or to a large extent.
• adv. On a large scale, expansively.
• adv. Hard.
• n. Someone or something that is large in stature.
• n. An important or powerful person; a celebrity; a big name.
• n. (as plural) The big leagues, big time.
• v. (transitive) To praise or recommend.
• v. (transitive, archaic or Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) to inhabit; occupy.
• v. (reflexive, archaic or Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) to locate oneself.
• v. (transitive, archaic or Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) to build; erect; fashion.
• v. (intransitive, archaic or Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) to dwell; have a dwelling.
• n. One or more kinds of barley, especially six-rowed barley.

burning

• v. present participle of burn.
• adj. So hot as to seem to burn (something).
• adj. Feeling very hot.
• adj. Feeling great passion.
• adj. Consuming; intense; inflaming; exciting; vehement; powerful.
• n. The act by which something burns or is burned.
• n. A fire.

cardinal

• adj. Of fundamental importance; crucial, pivotal.
• adj. (nautical) Of or relating to the cardinal directions (north, south, east and west).
• adj. Describing a "natural" number used to indicate quantity (e.g., one, two, three), as opposed to an ordinal…
• adj. Having a bright red color (from the color of a Catholic cardinal's cassock).
• n. A number indicating quantity, or the size of a set, e.g., one, two, three. (See Wikipedia article on Cardinal…
• n. (grammar) A word used to represent a cardinal number; a cardinal numeral.
• n. An official in the Catholic Church, ranking only below the Pope and the patriarchs. (See Wikipedia article…
• n. Any of a genus of songbirds of the finch family, Cardinalis.
• n. Any of various related passerine birds of the family Cardinalidae (See Wikipedia article on cardinals)…
• n. A shade of scarlet, the traditional colour of a Catholic cardinal's cassock.
• n. (historical) A woman's short cloak with a hood.
• n. (obsolete) Mulled red wine.
• n. A freshwater fish, the cardinal tetra (Paracheirodon axelrodi).

central

• adj. Being in the centre.
• adj. Being the most important.
• adj. Having or containing the centre of something.
• adj. Being very important, or key to something.
• adj. (anatomy) Exerting its action towards the peripheral organs.

chief

• n. A leader or head of a group of people, organisation, etc.
• n. (heraldry) The top part of a shield or escutcheon.
• n. An informal address to an equal.
• adj. Primary; principal.
• v. (US, slang) To smoke cannabis.

consequential

• adj. following as a result.
• adj. having significant consequences; of importance.
• adj. important or significant.
• adj. self-important.

critical

• adj. Inclined to find fault or criticize; fastidious; captious; censorious; exacting.
• adj. Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis or turning point.
• adj. Extremely important.
• adj. Relating to criticism or careful analysis, such as literary or film criticism.
• adj. (medicine) Of a patient condition involving unstable vital signs and a prognosis that predicts the condition…
• adj. Likely to go out of control if disturbed, that is, opposite of stable.
• adj. Of the point (in temperature, reagent concentration etc.) where a nuclear or chemical reaction becomes…
• n. A critical value, factor, etc.
• n. In breakdancing, a kind of airflare move in which the dancer hops from one hand to the other.

crucial

• adj. Being essential or decisive for determining the outcome or future of something; extremely important.
• adj. (archaic) Cruciform or cruciate; cross-shaped.
• adj. (slang, chiefly Jamaica) Term of approval, particularly when applied to reggae music.

decisive

• adj. Having the power or quality of deciding a question or controversy; putting an end to contest or controversy;…
• adj. Marked by promptness and decision.

distinguished

• adj. celebrated, well-known or eminent because of past achievements; prestigious.
• adj. Having a dignified appearance or demeanor.
• adj. (mathematics) Specified, noted.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of distinguish.

earthshaking

• adj. Of global consequence or importance.
• adj. Very loud.

eminent

• adj. (archaic) high, lofty; towering; prominent.
• adj. noteworthy, remarkable, great.
• adj. (of a person) distinguished, important, noteworthy.

epoch-making

• adj. Constituting an epoch; opening a new era; introducing new conceptions or a new method in the treatment…

epochal

• adj. of or pertaining to an epoch.
• adj. highly important or significant; monumentous, epoch-making.

essential

• adj. Necessary.
• adj. Very important; of high importance.
• adj. (biology) necessary for survival but not synthesized by the organism, thus needing to be ingested.
• adj. Being in the basic form; showing its essence.
• adj. Really existing; existent.
• adj. (of a lamination of a 3-manifold) Such that each complementary region is irreducible, the boundary of…
• adj. (medicine) Idiopathic.
• n. A necessary ingredient.
• n. A fundamental ingredient.

eventful

• adj. Of or pertaining to high levels of activity; having many memorable events.

evidential

• adj. Of or providing evidence.

evidentiary

• adj. (law) Of or pertaining to evidence.

fundamental

• n. (usually in the plural) A leading or primary principle, rule, law, or article, which serves as the groundwork…
• n. (physics) The lowest frequency of a periodic waveform.
• n. (music) The lowest partial of a complex tone.
• adj. Pertaining to the foundation or basis; serving for the foundation.
• adj. Essential, as an element, principle, or law; important; original; elementary.

grand

• adj. Of a large size or extent; great.
• adj. Great in size, and fine or imposing in appearance or impression; illustrious, dignified, magnificent.
• adj. Having higher rank or more dignity, size, or importance than other persons or things of the same name.
• adj. (usually in compound forms) Standing in the second or some more remote degree of parentage or descent.
• adj. (Ireland, Northern England, colloquial, otherwise dated) Fine; lovely.
• n. A thousand of some unit of currency, such as dollars or pounds. (Compare G.).
• n. (music) A grand piano.

grave

• n. An excavation in the earth as a place of burial.
• n. Any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher.
• n. death, destruction.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To dig.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To entomb; to bury.
• v. (transitive, obsolete, nautical) To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it…
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice…
• adj. (obsolete) Influential, important; authoritative.
• adj. Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness; not cheerful, sombre.
• adj. Low in pitch, tone etc.
• adj. Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable.
• n. A written accent used in French, Italian, and other languages. è is an e with a grave accent.

great

• adj. Very big, large scale.
• adj. Very good.
• adj. Important.
• adj. Title referring to an important leader.
• adj. Superior; admirable; commanding; applied to thoughts, actions, and feelings.
• adj. Endowed with extraordinary powers; uncommonly gifted; able to accomplish vast results; strong; powerful;…
• adj. (obsolete) Pregnant; large with young.
• adj. More than ordinary in degree; very considerable.
• adj. [qualifying nouns of family relationship] Involving more generations than the word qualified implies.…
• adj. (obsolete, except with 'friend' and similar words such as 'mate','buddy') Intimate; familiar.
• interj. Expression of gladness and content about something.
• interj. sarcastic inversion thereof.
• n. A person of major significance, accomplishment or acclaim.
• n. (music) The main division in a pipe organ, usually the loudest division.
• adv. very well (in a very satisfactory manner).

grievous

• adj. Causing grief, pain or sorrow.
• adj. Serious, grave, dire or dangerous.

heavy

• adj. (of a physical object) Having great weight.
• adj. (of a topic) Serious, somber.
• adj. Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive.
• adj. (Britain, slang, dated) Good.
• adj. (dated, late 1960s, 1970s, US) Profound.
• adj. (of a rate of flow) High, great.
• adj. (slang) Armed.
• adj. (music) Louder, more distorted.
• adj. (of weather) Hot and humid.
• adj. (of a person) Doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people.
• adj. (of food) High in fat or protein; difficult to digest.
• adj. Of great force, power, or intensity; deep or intense.
• adj. Laden to a great extent.
• adj. Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with…
• adj. Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid.
• adj. Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey.
• adj. Not raised or leavened.
• adj. Having much body or strength; said of wines or spirits.
• adj. (obsolete) With child; pregnant.
• adv. heavily.
• adv. (India, colloquial) very.
• n. A villain or bad guy; the one responsible for evil or aggressive acts.
• n. (slang) A doorman, bouncer or bodyguard.
• n. (aviation) A large multi-engined aircraft.
• v. (often with "up") To make heavier.
• v. To sadden.
• v. (Australia, New Zealand, informal) To use power and/or wealth to exert influence on, e.g., governments…
• adj. Having the heaves.

historic

• adj. Very important, very noteworthy: having importance or significance in history.
• adj. Old-fashioned, untouched by modernity.
• adj. (now uncommon) Synonym of historical: of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history or the past…
• adj. (grammar) Various grammatical tenses and moods specially used in retelling past events.
• n. (obsolete) A history, a non-fiction account of the past.
• n. (obsolete) A historian.

immodest

• adj. Without customary restraint or modesty of expression; shameless.

important

• adj. Having relevant and crucial value.

influential

• adj. Having or exerting influence.
• n. A person who has influence.

key

• n. An object designed to open and close a lock.
• n. An object designed to fit between two other objects (such as a shaft and a wheel) in a mechanism and maintain…
• n. A crucial step or requirement.
• n. A guide explaining the symbols or terminology of a map or chart; a legend.
• n. A guide to the correct answers of a worksheet or test.
• n. (computing) One of several small, usually square buttons on a typewriter or computer keyboard, mostly…
• n. (music) One of a number of rectangular moving parts on a piano or musical keyboard, each causing a particular…
• n. (music) One of various levers on a musical instrument used to select notes, such as a lever opening a…
• n. (music) A hierarchical scale of musical notes on which a composition is based.
• n. (figuratively) The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.
• n. (botany) An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, such as the fruit of the ash and maple;…
• n. (historical) A manual electrical switching device primarily used for the transmission of Morse code.
• n. (cryptography) A piece of information (e.g. a passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages.
• n. (Internet) A password restricting access to an IRC channel.
• n. (databases) In a relational database, a field used as an index into another table (not necessarily unique).
• n. (computing) A value that uniquely identifies an entry in an associative array.
• n. (basketball) The free-throw lane together with the circle surrounding the free-throw line, the free-throw…
• n. (biology) A series of logically organized groups of discriminating information which aims to allow the…
• n. (architecture) A piece of wood used as a wedge.
• n. (architecture) The last board of a floor when laid down.
• n. (masonry) A keystone.
• n. That part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place.
• n. (rail transport) A wooden support for a rail on the bullhead rail system.
• n. (heraldry) The object used to open or close a lock, often used as a heraldic charge.
• n. The degree of roughness, or retention ability of a surface to have applied a liquid such as paint, or…
• adj. Indispensable, supremely important.
• adj. Important, salient.
• v. To fit (a lock) with a key.
• v. To fit (pieces of a mechanical assembly) with a key to maintain the orientation between them.
• v. To mark or indicate with a symbol indicating membership in a class.
• v. (telegraphy and radio telegraphy) To depress (a telegraph key).
• v. (radio) To operate (the transmitter switch of a two-way radio).
• v. (computing) (more usually to key in) To enter (information) by typing on a keyboard or keypad.
• v. (colloquial) To vandalize (a car, etc.) by scratching with an implement such as a key.
• v. To link (as one might do with a key or legend).
• v. (intransitive, biology, chiefly taxonomy) To be identified as a certain taxon when using a key.
• v. To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges.
• n. One of a string of small islands.
• n. Alternative form of quay.
• n. (slang) Clipping of kilogram. (though this is more commonly shortened to kay).

large

• adj. Of considerable or relatively great size or extent.
• adj. (obsolete) Abundant; ample.
• adj. (archaic) Full in statement; diffuse; profuse.
• adj. (obsolete) Free; unencumbered.
• adj. (obsolete) Unrestrained by decorum; said of language.
• adj. (nautical) Crossing the line of a ship's course in a favorable direction; said of the wind when it is…
• n. (music, obsolete) An old musical note, equal to two longas, four breves, or eight semibreves.
• n. (obsolete) Liberality, generosity.
• n. (slang, plural: large) A thousand dollars/pounds.
• n. A large serving of something.

life-or-death

• adj. Of critical importance to the survival of a living organism.
• adj. Having death as a possible or even likely outcome; perilous.
• adj. Of critical importance to the success of a particular endeavor.

main

• adj. (obsolete) Great in size or degree; vast; strong; powerful; important.
• adj. Principal; prime; chief; leading; of chief or principal importance.
• adj. Principal or chief in size or extent; largest; consisting of the largest part; most important by reason…
• adj. Full; undivided; sheer (of strength, force etc.).
• adj. (nautical) Belonging to or connected with the principal mast in a vessel.
• adj. (dialectal) Big; angry.
• adv. (Britain, dialectal) Very; very much; greatly; mightily; extremely; exceedingly.
• v. (transitive) To mainly play a specific character, or side, when playing a game.
• n. (obsolete, except in might and main) Strength; power; force; violent effort.
• n. That which is chief or principal; the chief or main portion; the gross; the bulk; the greater part.
• n. (informal) The main course, or principal dish of a meal.
• n. (now archaic, US dialectal) The mainland.
• n. (now poetic) The high seas.
• n. A large pipe or cable providing utility service to a building or area, such as water main or electric…
• n. (nautical) The mainsail.
• n. A hand or match in a game of dice.
• n. A stake played for at dice.
• n. The largest throw in a match at dice; a throw at dice within given limits, as in the game of hazard.
• n. A match at cockfighting.
• n. A main-hamper, or fruit basket.

meaningful

• adj. Having meaning, significant.

measurable

• adj. Able to be measured.
• adj. Of significant importance.
• n. That which can be measured; a metric.

momentous

• adj. Outstanding in importance, of great consequence.

monumental

• adj. In the manner of a monument.
• adj. Large, grand and imposing. Fitting to be a monument to someone or something.
• adj. Taking a great amount of time and effort to complete.
• adj. (archaeology) Relating to monuments.

noteworthy

• adj. Deserving attention; notable; worthy of notice.
• n. A noteworthy person.

operative

• adj. Effectual or important.
• adj. Functional, in working order.
• adj. Having the power of acting; hence, exerting force, physical or moral; active in the production of effects.
• adj. Producing the appropriate or designed effect; efficacious.
• adj. Based upon, or consisting of, a surgical operation or operations.
• n. An employee or other worker with some particular function or skill.
• n. A spy, secret agent, or detective.
• n. A participant in an operation.

outstanding

• v. present participle of outstand.
• adj. prominent or noticeable; standing out from others.
• adj. exceptionally good; distinguished from others by its superiority.
• adj. projecting outwards.
• adj. unresolved; not settled or finished.
• adj. owed as a debt.

pivotal

• adj. Of, relating to, or being a pivot.
• adj. Being of crucial importance; central, key.

polar

• adj. Of, relating to, measured from, or referred to a geographic pole (the North Pole or South Pole).
• adj. (space sciences) Of an orbit that passes over, or near, one of these poles.
• adj. (chemistry) Having a dipole; ionic.
• adj. (mathematics) Of a coordinate system, specifying the location of a point in a plane by using a radius…
• adj. (linguistics, of a question) Having but two possible answers, yes and no.

portentous

• adj. Of momentous or ominous significance.
• adj. Ominously prophetic.
• adj. Puffed up with vanity.

primal

• adj. Being the first in time, or history.
• adj. Being of greatest importance; primary.
• adj. (meat trade) Being one of the pieces of meat initially separated from the carcass during butchering, prior…
• n. primal cut (of meat).

primary

• adj. The first in a group or series.
• adj. Main; principal; placed ahead of others.
• adj. (geology) Earliest formed; fundamental.
• adj. (chemistry) Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree;…
• adj. (medicine) Relating to the place where a disorder or disease started to occur.
• adj. (medicine) Relating to day-to-day care provided by health professionals such as nurses, general practitioners,…
• n. A primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party.
• n. The first year of grade school.
• n. A base or fundamental component; something that is irreducible.
• n. The most massive component of a gravitationally bound system.
• n. A primary school.
• n. (ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the manus (hand) of a bird.
• n. A primary colour.
• n. (electronics) A directly driven inductive coil, as in a transformer or induction motor that is magnetically…
• v. (US, intransitive) To take part in a primary election.
• v. (US, politics) To challenge an incumbent sitting politician for their political party's endorsement to…

principal

• adj. Primary; most important.
• adj. (obsolete, Latinism) Of or relating to a prince; princely.
• n. (finance, uncountable) The money originally invested or loaned, on which basis interest and returns are…
• n. (Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand) The chief administrator of a school.
• n. (Britain, Scotland, Canada) The chief executive and chief academic officer of a university or college.
• n. (law) One who directs another (the agent) to act on one′s behalf.
• n. (law) The primary participant in a crime.
• n. A company represented by a salesperson.
• n. (Canada, US) A partner or owner of a business.
• n. (music) A diapason, a type of organ stop on a pipe organ.
• n. (architecture, engineering) The construction that gives shape and strength to a roof, generally a truss…
• n. The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.
• n. One of the turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and centre of a funeral hearse…
• n. (obsolete) An essential point or rule; a principle.
• n. A dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company.
• n. (computing) A security principal.

probative

• adj. (law) Tending to prove a particular proposition or to persuade someone of the truth of an allegation.

probatory

• adj. Serving for trial; probationary.
• adj. Relating to, or serving for, proof.

prodigious

• adj. Very big in size or quantity; gigantic; colossal; huge.
• adj. extraordinarily exciting or amazing.
• adj. (obsolete) ominous, portentous.

profound

• adj. Descending far below the surface; opening or reaching to great depth; deep.
• adj. Very deep; very serious.
• adj. Intellectually deep; entering far into subjects; reaching to the bottom of a matter, or of a branch of…
• adj. Characterized by intensity; deeply felt; pervading.
• adj. Bending low, exhibiting or expressing deep humility; lowly; submissive.
• n. (obsolete) The deep; the sea; the ocean.
• n. (obsolete) An abyss.
• v. (obsolete) To cause to sink deeply; to cause to dive or penetrate far down.
• v. (obsolete) To dive deeply; to penetrate.

remarkable

• adj. Worthy of being remarked or noticed; noticeable; conspicuous; hence, uncommon; extraordinary.

serious

• adj. Without humor or expression of happiness; grave in manner or disposition; earnest; solemn.
• adj. Important; weighty; not insignificant.
• adj. Really intending what is said; in earnest; not jocular or deceiving.

significant

• adj. Signifying something; carrying meaning.
• adj. Having a covert or hidden meaning.
• adj. Having a noticeable or major effect; notable.
• adj. Reasonably large in number or amount.
• adj. (statistics) Having a low probability of occurring by chance (for example, having high correlation and…
• n. That which has significance; a sign; a token; a symbol.

strategic

• adj. of or pertaining to strategy.

valuable

• adj. Having a great value.
• adj. Estimable; deserving esteem.
• n. a personal possession such as jewellery, of relatively great monetary value; — usually used in plural…

weighty

• adj. heavy (having a lot of weight).
• adj. important; or serious.
• adj. Rigorous; severe; afflictive.

world-shaking

• adj. Momentous; of great import; of great significance, importance or consequence.