Important
[ɪm'pɔːt(ə)nt] or [ɪm'pɔrtnt]
Definition
(adj.) of great significance or value; 'important people'; 'the important questions of the day' .
(adj.) having or suggesting a consciousness of high position; 'recited the decree with an important air'; 'took long important strides in the direction of his office' .
Editor: Milton--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) Full of, or burdened by, import; charged with great interests; restless; anxious.
(v. t.) Carrying or possessing weight or consequence; of valuable content or bearing; significant; weighty.
(v. t.) Bearing on; forcible; driving.
(v. t.) Importunate; pressing; urgent.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Weighty, momentous, grave, serious, material, significant, of importance, of moment, of great weight.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Significant, expressive, relevant, main, leading, considerable, great,dignified, influential, weighty, momentous, material, grave, essential
ANT:Insignificant, trivial, inexpressive, irrelevant, inconsiderable, petty, mean,uninfluential, secondary, unimportant, minor
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Examples
- Mr. Jarndyce took great pains to talk with him seriously and to put it to his good sense not to deceive himself in so important a matter. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- One of the most important of the early inventions in the textile art was the _cotton gin_. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The list would be too long to simply name all the ingenious machines there exhibited and subsequently invented for every important operation. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some most important business. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The most important of all modern improvements on the bicycle was perhaps the pneumatic tire. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Many treatises in different languages have been published on pigeons, and some of them are very important, as being of considerable antiquity. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- It is to be drunk that is important. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Indeed Scott did not deem it important to hold anything beyond the Rio Grande, and authorized Taylor to fall back to that line if he chose. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Important witnesses; saw you in a delicate situation. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The important elevations within the line had all been carefully fortified and supplied with a proper armament. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Neither Jos nor Emmy knew this important maxim. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Among the important and interesting achievements of chemistry in the Nineteenth Century is the _artificial production of organic compounds_. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Our conscious thoughts, observations, wishes, aversions are important, because they represent inchoate, nascent activities. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In 1822 the important improvement of the reciprocating knife bar was made by Ogle, which became a characteristic feature of all subsequent successful reapers. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- This road was very important to the enemy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I heard the mice too, rattling behind the panels, as if the same occurrence were important to their interests. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- But a human impulse is more important than any existing theory. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- An important branch of the textile art is cloth finishing, whereby the rough surface of the cloth as it comes from the loom is rendered soft and smooth. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Bare logic, however important in arranging and criticizing existing subject matter, cannot spin new subject matter out of itself. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Among the most important are directness, open-mindedness, single-mindedness (or whole-heartedness), and responsibility. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The important feature of this boat was a diver’s compartment, enabling divers to leave the vessel when submerged, for the purpose of operating on wrecks or performing other undersea duties. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Two hundred years, nearly, elapsed before the next important advance in horology. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- As to the note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I congratulate you again. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- This reduces the weight of the gun, and is important to the man who carries it. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- As allied branches of the photographic art, photo-engraving, photo-lithographing, and half-tone engraving are important developments of the Nineteenth Century. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The Holly converter, covered by United States patents No. 86,303, and No. 86,304, January 26, 1869, represented one of the most important American developments of the Bessemer converter. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Important interviews would be broken off to get in a visit to some old historical mansion. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But how important an element enclosure is, I plainly saw near Farnham, in Surrey. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- It is used by food manufacturers and performs highly important functions in certain commercial fields. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Indeed, without this tireless minutiae, and methodical, searching spirit, it would have been practically impossible to have produced many of the most important of these inventions. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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