top-priority

ADJECTIVE

urgent

Synonyms

STRONGEST

compelling critical crucial demanding essential immediate imperative important indispensable necessary persuasive pressing serious vital weighty

WEAK

burning called-for capital chief clamant clamorous crying demanded driving exigent foremost heavy hurry-up impelling importunate insistent instant leading life and death momentous paramount primary principal required salient touch and go touchy wanted

Antonyms

STRONGEST

easy facile inessential insignificant light minor needless nonessential optional secondary small trivial uncritical unimportant unnecessary unsubstantial voluntary

WEAK

moderate

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My writing went faster because I started the week focused on my top-priority project, instead of fracturing my attention with emails and calls.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026

Identified as a top-priority pathogen by both the World Health Organization and the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 3, 2024

That’s disturbing news, given the decades-long trend of NASA’s top-priority missions ballooning in cost and wreaking havoc elsewhere in the space agency’s science budget.

From Scientific American • May 9, 2023

For older people, she says, strength training, which helps with balance, is the top-priority exercise because it makes other forms of activity possible.

From Washington Post • Feb. 20, 2023

So all we had to fall back on was the colonel's word, but since he now was heading a top-priority project at Wright, it would be difficult not to believe him.

From The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Ruppelt, Edward J.

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