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Important
IMPORT'ANT, a. Literally, bearing on or to. Hence, weighty; momentous; of great consequence; having a bearing on some interest, measure or result by which good or ill may be produced. Truth is important to happiness as well as to knowledge, but none so important as religious truth. The commerce of Great Britain is important to her navy, and her navy is important to her independence. Men often forget the important end for which they were created.
1. Bearing on; forcible; driving.
He fiercely at him flew,
And with important outrage him assailed.
2. Importunate. [Not used.]
important appears in definitions for these words:
Amomum Amuse Anticlimax Aphorism Apostle Aspirer Auspicate Bailer Banana Behavior Big Business Capital Chief Coffee Confer Consequential Considerable Convention Council Critical Discovery Disinterested Draft Earnest Educate Education Emphasis Encroach Enterpriser Enunciation Essential Essentially Expatiate Expedient Express Fundamental Gazette Grave-stone Great Gum-resin Head Hellebore Herring-fishery High Holyday Important Independence Indigo-plant Interview Invention Judicious Juncture Jurisprudence Light Likely Main Material Materially Mighty Ministerial Minnow Misconstrue Moliminous Momental Momentous Motto Mutilate Mystery Nomenclature Numerous Olympiad Omit Partial Point Ponderous Potassium Principal Proxy Psalmody Reality Rightness Sanhedrim Sense Serious Significant Simplify Stand Temporal Text Thin Time To Uncircumstantial Understand Unimportant Unlearn Unworthy Variety Vital Vitally Weigh Weighty
Amomum Amuse Anticlimax Aphorism Apostle Aspirer Auspicate Bailer Banana Behavior Big Business Capital Chief Coffee Confer Consequential Considerable Convention Council Critical Discovery Disinterested Draft Earnest Educate Education Emphasis Encroach Enterpriser Enunciation Essential Essentially Expatiate Expedient Express Fundamental Gazette Grave-stone Great Gum-resin Head Hellebore Herring-fishery High Holyday Important Independence Indigo-plant Interview Invention Judicious Juncture Jurisprudence Light Likely Main Material Materially Mighty Ministerial Minnow Misconstrue Moliminous Momental Momentous Motto Mutilate Mystery Nomenclature Numerous Olympiad Omit Partial Point Ponderous Potassium Principal Proxy Psalmody Reality Rightness Sanhedrim Sense Serious Significant Simplify Stand Temporal Text Thin Time To Uncircumstantial Understand Unimportant Unlearn Unworthy Variety Vital Vitally Weigh Weighty
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