English word
Important
Definitions
adjective
- marked by or indicative of significant worth or consequence : valuable in content or relationship
- deserving serious attention
- giving evidence of a feeling of self-importance
- importunate, urgentobsolete
Synonyms for important
Closest evidence-backed alternatives.
- major
- significant
- historic
- big
- pressing
- nonnegligible
- nontrivial
- unneglectable
- prerequisite
- big thing
- required
- necessitous
Synonyms by context
Being of crucial significance or importance
adjective
- crucial
- essential
- critical
- pivotal
- urgent
- vital
- paramount
- imperative
- invaluable
Representing an essential element
adjective
- central
- fundamental
- indispensable
- key
- necessary
- requisite
- core
- focal
- intrinsic
- needed
Having emotional or sentimental value
adjective
- precious
- cherished
- treasured
- of substance
- valuable
- dear
- red-letter
- beloved
- loved
Antonyms for important
- frivolous
- insignificant
- irrelevant
- trivial
- unimportant
- useless
- inconsequential
- trifling
- worthless
- inessential
- petty
- pointless
- minor
- optional
- unconsequential
- nonessential
- inconsiderable
- subsidiary
- ancillary
- insubstantial
Opposite of being of crucial significance or importance
- unimportant
- inconsequential
- insignificant
- trivial
- frivolous
- unconsequential
- inessential
- minor
- nonessential
- unnecessary
Opposite of representing an essential element
- optional
- secondary
- circumstantial
- subsidiary
- ancillary
Opposite of having emotional or sentimental value
- trifling
- piddling
- piffling
- puerile
- valueless
- worthless
- meagre
- meager
- of little worth
Phrases
- all important
- a matter of life and death
- at the heart of
- big thing
- called for
- carrying no great weight
- de rigueur
- hanging by thread
- having no effect
- high priority
- incumbent on
- least important
- less important
- life and death
- most important
- much needed
- name of game
- not so important
- not very important
- now or never