Importance
[ɪm'pɔːt(ə)ns] or [ɪm'pɔrtns]
Definition
(noun.) the quality of being important and worthy of note; 'the importance of a well-balanced diet'.
(noun.) a prominent status; 'a person of importance'.
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Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being important; consequence; weight; moment; significance.
(n.) Subject; matter.
(n.) Import; meaning; significance.
(n.) Importunity; solicitation.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Consequence, weight, moment, significance, import, concern.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:weight, moment, consequence, significance, signification, avail, concern
ANT:Unimportance, insignificance, nothingness, immateriality
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Examples
- Will was not quite contented, thinking that he would apparently have been of more importance if he had been disliked. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It shows a magnanimous spirit and does not magnif y the importance of trifles. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- That is a State secret of the utmost importance, and I fear that I cannot tell you, nor do I see that it is necessary. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- But since we no longer have the Church I do not think it carries importance. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The van der Luydens had done their best to emphasise the importance of the occasion. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Great importance has been attached to this variation in the inclination of the equator to the orbit by Dr. Croll in his book _Climate and Time_. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Norfolk was what he had mostly to talk of: there he had been some time, and everything there was rising in importance from his present schemes. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Perhaps they did, but it is of infinitely greater importance to mention that at this point also I lost my patience, opened my eyes, and interfered. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It was of less immediate practical importance that it frequently defined them wrongly. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- From this time onward it is to be noted that the Philistines fade in importance. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- All must be brought to a certain level of political development; all must know why they are fighting, and its importance. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It was hard, when Karkov spoke, to remember with what importance he, Andr?Marty, came from the Central Committee of the French Communist Party. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- All these desirable results have been accomplished whenever the new inventions of importance have been used. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Now, sir, if a document of this importance were taken at that hour, where can it be now? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- One other Abbasid Caliph only need be named, and that quite as much for his legendary as for his real importance, Haroun-al-Raschid[331] (786-809). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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