What is another word for crucial?
525 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ kɹˈuːʃə͡l], [ kɹˈuːʃəl], [ k_ɹ_ˈuː_ʃ_əl]Table of Contents
Similar words for crucial:- acute (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- big league (adjective)
- burning (adjective)
- chief (adjective)
- climactic (adjective)
- climactic/climacteric (adjective)
- critical (adjective)
- critical, important (adjective)
- decisive (adjective)
- desperate (adjective)
- determinative (adjective)
- difficult (adjective)
- essential (adjective)
- exigent (adjective)
- fatal (adjective)
- fateful (adjective)
- fundamental (adjective)
- heavyweight (adjective)
- helpful (adjective)
- imperative (adjective)
- important (adjective)
- indispensable (adjective)
- life-and-death (adjective)
- main (adjective)
- major (adjective)
- major-league (adjective)
- memorable (adjective)
- momentous (adjective)
- necessary (adjective)
- needful (adjective)
- pivotal (adjective)
- pressing (adjective)
- telling (adjective)
- underlying (adjective)
- urgent (adjective)
- vital (adjective)
- weighty (adjective)
- all-important (noun)
- burning (noun)
- crucial (noun)
- other synonyms
- historic
- other relevant words
Synonyms for Crucial:
adj.
•acute (adjective) •all (adjective) •big league (adjective) •burning (adjective) •chief (adjective)- stellar,
- fore most,
- pre-dominant,
- superior,
- fore-most,
- upper-most,
- grandest,
- para-mount,
- pre dominant,
- pre eminent,
- para mount,
- out standing,
- potent.
- insistent,
- searching,
- showdown,
- touchy,
- on thin ice,
- climatic,
- hanging by thread,
- pivotal,
- clamorous.
- more strong minded,
- re-solved,
- in tent,
- strong minded,
- most strong-minded,
- re solved,
- more strongminded,
- re solute,
- peremptory,
- most resolved,
- final,
- most strongminded,
- all out,
- most strong minded,
- more resolved,
- litmus test,
- strongminded,
- more strong-minded,
- re-solute.
- galling,
- up-stream,
- immense,
- strenuous,
- Operose,
- hard-won,
- effortful,
- easier said than done,
- backbreaker,
- not easy,
- upstream,
- no picnic,
- painful,
- Difficile.
- more right hand,
- pre requisite,
- more righthand,
- more right-hand,
- most right hand,
- re-quired,
- right-hand,
- re quired,
- wanted,
- most righthand,
- most right-hand.
- most predestined,
- fore ordained,
- pre destined,
- pre-destined,
- un luckier,
- un lucky,
- un-luckiest,
- un-lucky,
- more predestined,
- most foreordained,
- in evitable,
- fore-ordained,
- in-evitable,
- un-luckier,
- un luckiest,
- more foreordained.
- bottomline,
- most bottom line,
- more underived,
- most foundational,
- more substrative,
- grassroots,
- more axiological,
- most bottom-line,
- most grass roots,
- elemental,
- more meat-and-potatoes,
- most sustaining,
- more bottomline,
- grass roots,
- most grass-roots,
- most meat-and-potatoes,
- un-derived,
- most axiological,
- more bottom line,
- most grassroots,
- most fundamental,
- more grassroots,
- most substrative,
- more substratal,
- substratal,
- most bottomline,
- most substratal,
- more sustaining,
- sub stratal,
- more foundational,
- most underived,
- sub-stratal,
- more grass roots,
- elementary,
- most meat and potatoes,
- un derived,
- more meat and potatoes,
- more bottom-line,
- more grass-roots,
- grass-roots.
- co operative,
- in-valuable,
- most symbiotic,
- in valuable,
- more bettering,
- more supportive,
- more caring,
- most bettering,
- most caring,
- most serendipitous,
- more symbiotic,
- more serendipitous,
- helpful.
- dominant,
- valuable,
- landmark,
- grave,
- sacrosanct,
- of moment,
- world-shaking,
- newsworthy,
- notable,
- eminent,
- distinguished,
- influential,
- cardinal,
- make-or-break,
- monumental,
- eternal,
- far-reaching,
- epoch-making,
- earthshaking,
- sacred,
- major league,
- signal,
- vitally,
- big-name,
- noteworthy,
- big league,
- consequential,
- real,
- front and center,
- big-wig,
- hot,
- high,
- meaningful,
- of note,
- serious,
- all-consuming,
- special,
- salient,
- mattering much,
- mere,
- considerable,
- especial,
- historic,
- of substance,
- high-powered,
- prominent,
- major,
- big,
- substantial,
- focal.
- earth-shaking,
- earth-shattering,
- life and death,
- vitally important,
- of vital importance,
- earthshattering,
- life or death.
- mind blowing,
- un forgettable,
- more rememberable,
- red letter,
- most surpassing,
- most rememberable,
- redletter,
- most doozie,
- more doozie,
- more surpassing,
- top-drawer,
- most rubric,
- extra-ordinary,
- most bodacious,
- sur passing,
- more bodacious,
- doozie,
- A 1,
- topdrawer,
- un-forgettable,
- more rubric,
- mindblowing,
- sur-passing.
- most heat on,
- more forcing,
- more heat-on,
- heaton,
- hurryup,
- more heaton,
- most hurryup,
- re quiring,
- most heat-on,
- more heat on,
- more hurry up,
- more hurry-up,
- heat on,
- more hurryup,
- hurry up,
- most claiming,
- most forcing,
- most hurry-up,
- most heaton,
- most hurry up,
- re-quiring,
- more claiming.
- more nitty-gritty,
- nubbest,
- most nitty gritty,
- more nittygritty,
- most nitty-gritty,
- under lying,
- under-lying,
- rootest,
- more nitty gritty,
- nittygritty,
- most nittygritty.
- more called-for,
- more calledfor,
- more demanded,
- touch go,
- more toppriority,
- most called for,
- more impelling,
- toppriority,
- most toppriority,
- most top priority,
- most called-for,
- most demanded,
- calledfor,
- more top priority,
- more called for,
- top priority,
- most top-priority,
- more top-priority,
- most impelling,
- most calledfor.
- more underlined,
- coal and ice,
- more life-or-death,
- most coal and ice,
- more name of the game,
- most life or death,
- more coal-and-ice,
- more name-of-the-game,
- most underlined,
- under lined,
- more coal and ice,
- under-lined,
- most life-or-death,
- more life or death,
- namest,
- most name of the game,
- most name-of-the-game,
- most coal-and-ice.
n.
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- excellent,
- incredible,
- fine,
- wonderful,
- exceptional,
- decent,
- tremendous,
- wonder,
- superb,
- good.
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- safety,
- dire,
- climacteric.
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- decide.
Other synonyms:
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- fundamental.
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- conclusive.
- charged,
- critically,
- genetic,
- fierce,
- importance,
- absolutely necessary,
- pristine,
- criticalness,
- strategic,
- in demand,
- demonstration,
- principal,
- radical,
- ominous,
- organic,
- decisively,
- web-footed,
- criterion,
- dangerous,
- substantive,
- thought-provoking,
- significance,
- matter,
- reticular,
- imperious,
- aboriginal,
- prestige,
- generative,
- perilous,
- Palmiped,
- essence,
- influence,
- magnitude,
- emphasis,
- cross-shaped,
- no laughing matter,
- basal,
- biggest,
- original,
- import,
- concern,
- prominence,
- payoff,
- explicit,
- verified,
- Demanded,
- Retiform,
- stress,
- resolute,
- pregnant,
- criticality,
- incumbent,
- high pressure,
- consequence,
- compulsory,
- primeval,
- distressing,
- seriousness,
- authoritative,
- emergent,
- acid test,
- dignity,
- streaked,
- essentially,
- intense,
- paramount,
- primal,
- sticking point,
- called for,
- linchpin,
- loaded,
- probe,
- dominating,
- proof,
- primitive,
- foremost,
- Protogenic,
- importantly,
- intrinsic,
- great,
- areolar,
- convincing,
- laden,
- required,
- issue,
- barred,
- inherent,
- lynchpin,
- primary,
- cruciate,
- rudimentary,
- profound,
- in ovo,
- tactical,
- diagnostic,
- cross,
- cancellated,
- secant,
- quintessential,
- Grated,
- precedent-setting,
- embryonic,
- value,
- categorical,
- gravity,
- obligatory,
- greatness,
- constitutional,
- fraught,
- crossed,
- needed,
- worst,
- heavy,
- irresistible,
- in embryo,
- definitive,
- particular,
- Crossbarred,
- test,
- reticulated,
- cruciform,
- primordial,
- first,
- account,
- critic,
- of consequence,
- prime,
- incisive,
- crucially,
- Experimentum crucis,
- mandatory,
- brisk,
- germinal,
- outstanding,
- requisite,
- benchmark,
- textile,
- significant,
- alpha,
- provocative,
- probation,
- verification,
- pungent.
Paraphrases for Crucial:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
indispensable, critical, all-important, essential, vital, make-or-break, key, important.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
primordial, integral, determinant, seminal, cardinal, overriding, momentous, determinative, overarching, urgent, fateful, utmost, serious, mission-critical, capital, substantive, invaluable, influential, transcendental, Life-saving, compelling, definitive, underlying, focal, prominent, irreplaceable, meaningful, much-needed, difficult, resolute, ultimate, preponderant, pre-eminent, deciding, sensitive, salient, quintessential, delicate, absolutely, inconclusive, inevitable, radical, pressing, absolute, unavoidable, inescapable, requisite, transcendent, predicate, enormous, pertinent, large, authoritative, predominant, dramatic, centralised, big, far-reaching, extreme, severe, must-have, significant, determining, overwhelming, topical, fatal, extremely, profound, definite, over-riding, real, dominant, prime, Influencing, huge, tremendous, over-arching, precious, exceptional, Dispositive, causal, acute, capital-intensive, peremptory, intrinsic, prerequisite, precarious, needed, particular, grave, immense, hinge, primeval, very, vast, powerful, rate-limiting, mandatory, drastic, remarkable.
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Proper noun, singular
significant.
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Noun, singular or mass
prerequisite, turning.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
instrumental, substantial, paramount, fundamental, foundational, considerable, indispensible, valuable, imperative, decisive.
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Proper noun, singular
decisive.
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Noun, singular or mass
fundamental, imperative, crux, decisive, litmus, essence.
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Adjective
Antonyms for Crucial:
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adj.
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all
noncrucial.
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critical, important
insignificant, trivial, optional, voluntary, minor, inessential, unimportant, unnecessary, uncritical, secondary.
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Other antonyms:
inconsequential, immaterial.
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all
Homophones for Crucial:
- carousal, carrousel, currishly, creakily, coarsely, carousel, Creosol, courageously, caracal, crackle, churchill, charcoal, coracle, church school, churchly, crack willow, curiously, caracole, crassula, crossly, cresol, crazily, circle, crazy glue, caracul, choir school.