chiefest

ADJECTIVE

most important, essential

Synonyms

STRONGEST

leading main preeminent prime principal

STRONG

arch capital cardinal central champion first grand head key major premier primary ruling star superior telling

WEAK

consequential controlling crucial effective especial foremost highest momentous number one outstanding paramount potent predominant primal significant stellar supreme uppermost vital weighty

Antonyms

STRONGEST

auxiliary extra inferior minor secondary subordinate unimportant

STRONG

bad inessential insignificant lower nonessential poor

WEAK

unnecessary

Example Sentences

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It’s ridiculous that our chiefest, most visible civic icon and landmark shouldn’t serve the city’s interest better.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 2023

Reading great prose is one of my chiefest joys.

From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2023

Three words pretty much sum up the chiefest reasons for chief executives’ pilgrimages here: gold, glory and golf.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2022

The chiefest among them is still Shakespeare, who has, I think, no equal for variety and richness of character.

From The Guardian • Jul. 19, 2012

Not only is his home to be a happy one, but it is to be exclusive; only the fortunate, of whom he is the chiefest, may go there.

From Religious Folk-Songs of the Southern Negroes by Odum, Howard W.