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| Main Entry: |
determining
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deciding |
| Synonyms: | certain, conclusive, decisive, definitive |
| Main Entry: | fatal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | critical, very important |
| Synonyms: | crucial, decisive, destined, determining, doomed, fateful, final, foreordained, inevitable, predestined, unlucky |
| Notes: | use fatal for something which has caused someone's death; use lethal for something which is capable of killing someone |
| Antonyms: | trivial, unimportant, unnecessary |
| Main Entry: | important |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | valuable, substantial |
| Synonyms: | big, big-league, chief, considerable, conspicuous, critical, crucial, decisive, determining, earnest, essential, esteemed, exceptional, exigent, extensive, far-reaching, foremost, front-page, grave, great, heavy, imperative, importunate, influential, large, marked, material, mattering much, meaningful, momentous, necessary, of moment, of note, of substance, paramount, ponderous, pressing, primary, principal, relevant, salient, serious, signal, significant, something, standout, urgent, vital, weighty |
| Antonyms: | inappreciable, insignificant, little, nonessential, small, trivial, unimportant, unsubstantial |
| Main Entry: | life-and-death |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extremely important |
| Synonyms: | all-important, consequential, critical, crucial, determining, earth-shaking, earth-shattering, essential, imperative, important, indispensable, life or death, meaningful, of vital importance, paramount, pivotal, serious, significant, urgent, vital, vitally important |
| Main Entry: | overriding |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | central, most important |
| Synonyms: | cardinal, compelling, determining, dominant, final, main, major, number one, overruling, paramount, pivotal, predominant, prevailing, primary, prime, principal, ruling, supreme, ultimate |
| Antonyms: | insignificant, least, unimportant |
| Main Entry: | pivotal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | important |
| Synonyms: | cardinal, central, climactic, critical, crucial, decisive, determining, essential, focal, middle, momentous, overriding, overruling, principal, ruling, vital |
| Antonyms: | inconsequential, unimportant, unsubstantial |
| Main Entry: | governing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | commanding |
| Synonyms: | absolute, administrative, ascendant, authoritative, conducting, controlling, determining, directing, dominant, dominating, executive, gubernatorial, guiding, influential, magisterial, mastering, ordering, overseeing, presidential, regulatory, restraining, ruling, superintending, supervisory, supreme |
| Antonyms: | powerless, subordinate, tributary |
| Main Entry: | operating |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | causing to function |
| Synonyms: | accomplishing, administering, at work, conducting, contriving, determining, directing, driving, executing, finishing, fulfilling, guiding, maintaining, managing, manipulating, moving, ordering, performing, practicing, regulating, revolving, running, serving, spinning, supervising, sustaining, transacting, turning, using, wielding |
| Main Entry: | standardizing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | normative |
| Synonyms: | balancing, controlling, determining, directing, directive, normalizing, regularizing, regulating, regulative, shifting |
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