Synonyms for important
ɪmˈpɔr tntim·por·tant

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1. important

   Synonyms:
   significant, expressive, relevant, main, leading, considerable, great, dignified, influential, weighty, momentous, material, grave, essential

   Antonyms:
   insignificant, trivial, inexpressive, irrelevant, inconsiderable, petty, mean, uninfluential, secondary, unimportant, minor

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1. important, of importadjective

   of great significance or value

   "important people"; "the important questions of the day"

   Synonyms:
   authoritative, crucial, significant, of import

   Antonyms:
   lightweight, immaterial, fiddling, indifferent, unimportant, uninfluential, little, piffling, piddling, modest, potty, lilliputian, inconsequent, nickel-and-dime, inconsequential, petty, small-time, footling, picayune, trivial, niggling

2. significant, importantadjective

   important in effect or meaning

   "a significant change in tax laws"; "a significant change in the Constitution"; "a significant contribution"; "significant details"; "statistically significant"

   Synonyms:
   substantial, significant, meaning(a), of import, pregnant, authoritative, crucial

   Antonyms:
   footling, immaterial, piffling, lilliputian, unimportant, small-time, nickel-and-dime, modest, inconsequent, little, niggling, inconsequential, fiddling, lightweight, trivial, piddling, uninfluential, indifferent, potty, petty, picayune

3. crucial, importantadjective

   of extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis

   "a crucial moment in his career"; "a crucial election"; "a crucial issue for women"

   Synonyms:
   essential, all important(p), all-important(a), significant, of import, authoritative, crucial, of the essence(p)

   Antonyms:
   piddling, potty, inconsequential, small-time, lightweight, trivial, fiddling, piffling, immaterial, nickel-and-dime, little, lilliputian, inconsequent, niggling, uninfluential, indifferent, modest, petty, picayune, unimportant, footling

4. authoritative, importantadjective

   having authority or ascendancy or influence

   "an important official"; "the captain's authoritative manner"

   Synonyms:
   authorised, significant, classic, authorized, of import, crucial, authoritative, definitive, classical

   Antonyms:
   uninfluential, little, trivial, unimportant, footling, potty, niggling, modest, nickel-and-dime, inconsequent, picayune, small-time, piddling, inconsequential, immaterial, petty, indifferent, fiddling, lightweight, piffling, lilliputian

5. importantadjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   authoritative, crucial, significant, of import

   Antonyms:
   nickel-and-dime, inconsequent, small-time, inconsequential, piffling, fiddling, little, trivial, indifferent, niggling, modest, potty, footling, petty, piddling, immaterial, lilliputian, picayune, lightweight, uninfluential, unimportant

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1. necessary

   every other thesaurus lists necessary as one synonym, and cambridge dictionary defines important as “necessary or of great value.”

   “eating is one of the most important things we do, because it’s necessary for life.”

   Submitted by SubHub3507 on May 25, 2021  

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1. importantadjective

   Synonyms:
   weighty, momentous, grave, serious, material, significant, of importance, of moment, of great weight

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1. importantadjective

   Synonyms:
   momentous, material, essential, pompous, consequential

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1. List of paraphrases for "important":

   significant, major, importance, substantial, essential, large, vital, key, crucial, importantly, considerable, critical, significance, notices, prominent, great, relevant, valuable, serious, significant, big, sizeable, elham, fundamental, meaningful, main, ilham, strong, extensive, momentous, high, notable

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1. Tim Scott:

   I was stopped this year, driving while black, and so this issue continues and that's why it's so important for us to say: 'We hear you, we're listening to your concerns.'.

2. Alejandro Echeverri:

   We are witnessing the most important elections in Colombia for many years, for the first time in history, there are candidates offering alternatives and that has generated a very tense environment, one polarized by two candidates.

3. Dorry Segev:

   Organ transplantation is actually even more important for patients with HIV, since they die on the waiting list even faster than their HIV-negative counterparts, we are very thankful to ... use organs from HIV-positive patients to save lives, instead of throwing them away, as we had to do for so many years.

4. R. Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1963:

   Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.

5. Glenn Saxe:

   I think the most important thing is that the parent communicates a willingness to talk about this, an openness about it, that parents are really attuned to where their children are in this, even just asking a general question, 'Have you heard about this?' and see where your kid goes with that.