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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | significance, weight |
| Synonyms: | accent, attention, bearing, caliber, concern, concernment, consequence, denotation, distinction, drift*, effect, emphasis, force, gist*, gravity, import, influence, interest, materiality, moment, momentousness, notability, paramountcy, point, precedence, preponderance, preponderancy, priority, purport, relevance, sense, seriousness, signification, standing, stress, substance, tenor, usefulness, value, weightiness |
| Antonyms: | insignificance |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | importance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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all, cardinal, chief, commanding, considerable, critical, earnest, ecbatic, egregious, emphatic, essential, eventful, first, grand, grave, important, imposing, impressive, in the front rank, instant, leading, main, marked, material, memorable, momentous, monsterful, never to be forgotten, noble, not to be despised, not to be overlooked, not to be sneezed at, notable, of importance, of note, of vital importance, overruling, paramount, pregnant, pressing, primary, prime, principal, prominent, radical, rare, remarkable, salient, serious, signal, significant, solemn, stirring, substantive, superior, telling, trenchant, urgent, vital, weighty, worthy of notice, worthy of remark
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| Concept: | Importance. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; degree of subservience |
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-nouns
importance, consequence, moment, prominence, consideration, mark, materialness., import, significance, concern; emphasis, interest., greatness; superiority; notability (repute); weight (influence); value (goodness); usefulness., gravity, seriousness, solemnity; no joke, no laughing matter; pressure, urgency, stress; matter of life and death., memorabilia, notabilia, great doings; red-letter day., great thing, great point; main chance, "the be all and the end all" [Macbeth]; cardinal point; substance, gist (essence); sum and substance, gravamen, head and front; important part, principal part, prominent part, essential part; half the battle; sine qua non; breath of one's nostrils (life) [more];cream, salt, core, kernel, heart, nucleus; keynote, keystone; cornerstone; trump card (device); salient points., top sawyer, first fiddle, prima donna, chief; triton among the minnows; "it" [U.S.]
-verbs
be important, be somebody, be something; import, signify, matter, boot, be an object; carry weight (influence); make a figure (repute); be in the ascendant, come to the front, lead the way, take the lead, play first fiddle, throw all else into the shade; lie at the root of; deserve notice, merit notice, be worthy of notice, be worthy of regard, be worthy of consideration., attach importance to, ascribe importance to, give importance to; value, care for, set store upon, set store by; mark; mark with a white stone, underline; write in italics, put in italics, print in italics, print in capitals, print in large letters, put in large type, put in letters of gold; accentuate, emphasize, lay stress on., make a fuss about, make a fuss over, make a stir about, make a piece of work about, make much ado about; make much ado of, make much of.
-adjectives
important; of importance; momentous, material; to the point; not to be overlooked, not to be despised, not to be sneezed at; egregious; weighty (influential); of note (repute); notable, prominent, salient, signal; memorable, remarkable; unforgettable; worthy of remark, worthy of notice; never to be forgotten; stirring, eventful., grave, serious, earnest, noble, grand, solemn, impressive, commanding, imposing., urgent, pressing, critical, instant.
-adverbs
materially; in the main; above all, par excellence, to crown all, to beat all.
-phrases
expende Hannibalem! [Juvenal].
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| Antonyms: | unimportance |
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| Main Entry: | beauty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | advantage |
| Synonyms: | asset, attraction, benefit, blessing, boon, excellent, feature, good thing, importance, merit, value, worth |
| Antonyms: | disadvantage |
| Main Entry: | core |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | center, gist |
| Synonyms: | amount, base, basis, body, bottom line, bulk, burden, consequence, corpus, crux, essence, focus, foundation, heart, import, importance, kernel, main idea, mass, meat and potatoes, meat*, middle, midpoint, midst, nitty gritty, nub, nucleus, origin, pith, pivot, purport, quick, root, significance, staple, substance, thrust, upshot |
| Antonyms: | covering, exterior, exteriority, outside, perimeter, surface |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dignity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excellence, nobility |
| Synonyms: | address, cachet, character, consequence, courtliness, culture, decency, decorum, distinction, elevation, eminence, ethics, etiquette, glory, grace, grandeur, gravity, greatness, hauteur, honor, importance, loftiness, majesty, merit, morality, nobleness, perfection, poise, prestige, propriety, quality, rank, regard, renown, respectability, seemliness, self-respect, significance, solemnity, splendor, standing, state, stateliness, station, stature, status, sublimity, virtue, worth, worthiness |
| Antonyms: | lowliness |
| Main Entry: | dimensions/dimension |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | proportions; range |
| Synonyms: | admeasurement, ambit, amplitude, bigness, bulk, capacity, compass, depth, dimensionality, extension, extensity, extent, greatness, height, importance, largeness, length, magnitude, measure, measurement, reach, scale, scope, size, volume, width |
| Main Entry: | distinction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prominence; achievement |
| Synonyms: | accolade, account, award, badge, bays, celebrity, consequence, credit, decoration, eminence, excellence, fame, flair, greatness, illustriousness, importance, kudos, laurels, manner, merit, name, note, perfection, preeminence, prestige, quality, rank, renown, reputation, repute, style, superiority, worth |
| Antonyms: | insignificance, lowliness, mediocrity, unimportance |
| Main Entry: | greatness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nobleness of character; eminence |
| Synonyms: | celebrity, chivalry, dignity, distinction, fame, generosity, glory, grandeur, heroism, high-mindedness, idealism, illustriousness, importance, loftiness, magnanimity, majesty, merit, morality, nobility, note, prominence, renown, stateliness, sublimity, worthiness |
| Antonyms: | insignificance, unimportance |
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