Synonyms for Important:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • important,
  • of import.
  •authoritative (adjective)
  • autocratic,
  • commanding,
  • powerful,
  • authoritarian,
  • strong,
  • arrogant,
  • effectual,
  • dictatorial,
  • impressive,
  • masterful,
  • imperious,
  • authoritative,
  • potent,
  • effective.
  •big-league (adjective)
  • bigleague,
  • bluechip.
  •capital (adjective)
  • more prominent,
  • pre-dominant,
  • pre eminent,
  • most primary,
  • more overruling,
  • over ruling,
  • under-lying,
  • fundamental,
  • fore-most,
  • most overruling,
  • over-ruling,
  • pre dominant,
  • para-mount,
  • most fundamental,
  • para mount,
  • under lying,
  • fore most.
  •celebrated (adjective)
  • numero uno,
  • highpowered,
  • laureate,
  • up there.
  •central (adjective)
  • mid-way,
  • centroidal,
  • umbilical,
  • axial,
  • midmost,
  • pivotal,
  • middlemost,
  • Omphalic,
  • nuclear,
  • inmost,
  • centric.
  •deciding (adjective)
  • more necessary.
  •emblematic (adjective)
  • iconic.
  •eminent, influential, outstanding (adjective)
  • distinctive,
  • high profile,
  • leading,
  • imposing,
  • incomparable,
  • honored,
  • grand,
  • solid,
  • famous,
  • top-notch,
  • first-class,
  • talented,
  • top-drawer,
  • high-ranking,
  • upper-class,
  • prominent,
  • noble,
  • noteworthy,
  • high-level,
  • noted,
  • superior,
  • high-up,
  • aristocratic,
  • four-star,
  • majestic,
  • preeminent,
  • notable,
  • major-league,
  • page-one,
  • extraordinary.
  •emphatic (adjective)
  • ex-press,
  • de-finite,
  • most accented,
  • for face,
  • re sounding,
  • more pronounced,
  • resounding,
  • more accented,
  • more stressed,
  • un-mistakable,
  • most stressed,
  • un mistakable,
  • de finite,
  • re-sounding,
  • ex press.
  •famous (adjective)
  • more much-publicized,
  • more applauded,
  • most much-publicized,
  • more muchpublicized,
  • much publicized,
  • most famous,
  • mightiest,
  • most applauded,
  • most much publicized,
  • re-cognized,
  • most muchpublicized,
  • re cognized,
  • extra-ordinary,
  • muchpublicized,
  • more much publicized.
  •far-reaching (adjective)
  • far-reaching,
  • far-ranging.
  •fateful (adjective)
  • Doomful,
  • Resultful,
  • inauspicious.
  •focal (adjective)
  • more nucleus,
  • most nucleus.
  •full-dress (adjective)
  • allout,
  • fulldress,
  • all out.
  •grave (adjective)
  • killing,
  • most killing,
  • more killing,
  • feller,
  • fellest.
  •helpful (adjective)
  • in-valuable,
  • helpful,
  • most caring,
  • more bettering,
  • more supportive,
  • more serendipitous,
  • more caring,
  • more symbiotic,
  • most bettering,
  • most serendipitous,
  • most symbiotic,
  • co operative,
  • in valuable.
  •highfalutin (adjective)
  • self-centered,
  • Flaunting,
  • up pity,
  • highfalutin,
  • up-pity,
  • grandiose,
  • over bearing,
  • Over-bearing,
  • self centered,
  • selfcentered,
  • pre sumptuous,
  • puffy,
  • stuckup,
  • high mighty.
  •historic (adjective)
  • red letter,
  • redletter.
  •historical (adjective)
  • more chronicled,
  • more commemorated,
  • most commemorated,
  • more documented,
  • most documented,
  • most archival,
  • more attested,
  • most chronicled,
  • more archival,
  • most attested.
  •honored (adjective)
  • more venerated,
  • most decorated,
  • more decorated,
  • most venerated.
  •imperative (adjective)
  • in dispensable,
  • in-escapable,
  • in-dispensable,
  • importunate,
  • in escapable.
  •important (adjective)
  • landmark,
  • make-or-break,
  • eternal,
  • signal,
  • sacred,
  • considerable,
  • sacrosanct,
  • momentous,
  • hot,
  • mere,
  • critical,
  • especial,
  • special,
  • all-consuming,
  • world-shaking,
  • big-name,
  • front and center,
  • salient,
  • heavyweight,
  • big-wig,
  • high-powered,
  • major,
  • vitally.
  •impressive (adjective)
  • well-done,
  • awe inspiring,
  • more well-done,
  • pro found,
  • aweinspiring,
  • in tenser,
  • in-spiring,
  • more welldone,
  • ex-cited,
  • ex cited,
  • more well done,
  • in-tense,
  • welldone,
  • in-tenser,
  • in tense,
  • most well-done,
  • most well done,
  • in spiring,
  • well done,
  • pro-found,
  • pro-founder,
  • pro founder,
  • most welldone,
  • in-tensest.
  •influential (adjective)
  • prejudicial,
  • controlling,
  • big gun,
  • ruling,
  • hot-dog,
  • supreme,
  • senior,
  • hotdog,
  • namer,
  • big-gun,
  • big-wheel,
  • motivational,
  • predominant.
  •life-and-death (adjective)
  • vitally important,
  • earth-shaking,
  • life and death,
  • life or death,
  • of vital importance,
  • earth-shattering,
  • earthshattering.
  •memorable (adjective)
  • more doozie,
  • sur passing,
  • more surpassing,
  • most surpassing,
  • most rememberable,
  • most doozie,
  • more something,
  • more rememberable,
  • most bodacious,
  • most rubric,
  • A 1,
  • sur-passing,
  • mindblowing,
  • topdrawer,
  • more rubric,
  • mind blowing,
  • doozie,
  • most something,
  • more bodacious.
  •oratorical (adjective)
  • longwinded,
  • senatorial,
  • stylistic,
  • stagier,
  • stagiest,
  • gesticulative,
  • stagy.
  •outstanding (adjective)
  • more hundredproof,
  • hundred proof,
  • most world class,
  • hundredproof,
  • most steller,
  • more mostest,
  • topser,
  • hundred-proof,
  • more arrestive,
  • eye catching,
  • eyecatching,
  • more hundred proof,
  • topsest,
  • most out of this world,
  • worldclass,
  • most hundred proof,
  • most hundredproof,
  • most primo,
  • most out of sight,
  • meritorious,
  • most world-class,
  • most worldclass,
  • more steller,
  • farout,
  • more out of sight,
  • more primo,
  • more out-of-this-world,
  • more out of this world,
  • out-of-sight,
  • more worldclass,
  • most arrestive,
  • outstanding,
  • more world class,
  • most hundred-proof,
  • most out-of-sight,
  • most out-of-this-world,
  • most mostest,
  • out standing,
  • more out-of-sight,
  • more hundred-proof,
  • more world-class.
  •pompous (adjective)
  • most highfaluting,
  • over-blown,
  • more highfaluting,
  • self-important,
  • over blown,
  • high flown,
  • self important,
  • highflown,
  • selfimportant.
  •portentous (adjective)
  • Ill-boding,
  • premonitory.
  •powerful (adjective)
  • untouchable,
  • front line,
  • sovereign,
  • exalted,
  • overpowering,
  • elevated,
  • omnipotent,
  • unaccountable,
  • power,
  • all-powerful,
  • formidable.
  •prerequisite (adjective)
  • pre requisite,
  • re quired,
  • of essence,
  • re-quired.
  •prestigious (adjective)
  • more esteemed,
  • most esteemed.
  •proud (adjective)
  • honorable.
  •puffed-up (adjective)
  • hoitytoity,
  • puffedup,
  • hoity toity,
  • puffed up.
  •relevant (adjective)
  • related,
  • applicatory,
  • be coming,
  • to the point,
  • the point,
  • having to do with,
  • conformant,
  • pertaining to,
  • ad rem,
  • having direct bearing on,
  • pointful,
  • appurtenant,
  • on the button.
  •remarkable (adjective)
  • most gilt edged,
  • un-customary,
  • more gilt-edged,
  • un common,
  • most uncustomary,
  • un-wonted,
  • sur prising,
  • most smashing,
  • more uncustomary,
  • most giltedged,
  • gilt edged,
  • more gilt edged,
  • un commoner,
  • un-common,
  • un customary,
  • un ordinary,
  • un-commoner,
  • sur-prising,
  • more giltedged,
  • un wonted,
  • more smashing,
  • most gilt-edged,
  • un commonest.
  •responsible (adjective)
  • at helm,
  • dutybound,
  • more decision-making,
  • more compelled,
  • more contracted,
  • minding store,
  • duty bound,
  • most contracted,
  • decisionmaking,
  • most duty bound,
  • most duty-bound,
  • most decision-making,
  • most decisionmaking,
  • ex-posed,
  • most dutybound,
  • most compelled,
  • more duty bound,
  • more fettered,
  • ex posed,
  • more dutybound,
  • most decision making,
  • most hampered,
  • fettered,
  • most fettered,
  • more decisionmaking,
  • more hampered,
  • more duty-bound,
  • more decision making,
  • on hook,
  • carrying load.
  •serious (adjective)
  • strictly business,
  • unamusing,
  • no laughing matter,
  • smoking,
  • of consequence,
  • playing hard ball,
  • unhumorous,
  • out for blood,
  • no joke,
  • Operose,
  • sobering.
  •significant (adjective)
  • de-noting,
  • re presentative,
  • most meaning,
  • more denoting,
  • most expressing,
  • more meaning,
  • re-presentative,
  • ex pressing,
  • most denoting,
  • ex-pressing,
  • more expressing,
  • de noting.
  •structural (adjective)
  • organic.
  •stuffy (adjective)
  • humorless,
  • prim and proper.
  •substantial (adjective)
  • firm,
  • immanent,
  • tangible,
  • appreciable,
  • united,
  • actual,
  • physical,
  • material,
  • sturdy,
  • substantial,
  • real,
  • bodily,
  • substantive,
  • palpable.
  •superior (adjective)
  • upper.
  •telling (adjective)
  • more telling,
  • most telling.
  •unforgettable (adjective)
  • not to be forgotten.
  •upper (adjective)
  • greater.
  •urgent (adjective)
  • more demanded,
  • more hurry up,
  • most impelling,
  • more calledfor,
  • most toppriority,
  • calledfor,
  • touch go,
  • most top-priority,
  • most hurry-up,
  • toppriority,
  • most demanded,
  • hurry up,
  • most called for,
  • more toppriority,
  • more top priority,
  • most called-for,
  • top priority,
  • more hurry-up,
  • more called for,
  • most hurryup,
  • more hurryup,
  • hurryup,
  • more called-for,
  • wanted,
  • most hurry up,
  • most top priority,
  • most calledfor,
  • more impelling,
  • more top-priority.
  •valuable (adjective)
  • more appreciated,
  • most prized,
  • more prized,
  • most heirloom,
  • most appreciated,
  • most admired,
  • more heirloom,
  • more cherished,
  • more treasured,
  • most cherished,
  • high priced,
  • most treasured,
  • in-estimable,
  • most valuable,
  • more collectible,
  • in estimable,
  • highpriced,
  • most collectible,
  • more admired.
  •valuable, substantial (adjective)
  • exigent,
  • determining,
  • front-page,
  • extensive,
  • of substance,
  • ponderous,
  • marked,
  • something,
  • STANDOUT,
  • mattering much,
  • of moment,
  • esteemed,
  • exceptional.
  •vital (adjective)
  • more meat and potatoes,
  • most life or death,
  • more underlined,
  • most meat and potatoes,
  • most coal and ice,
  • more nitty gritty,
  • more name-of-the-game,
  • most nitty-gritty,
  • more bottomline,
  • more nitty-gritty,
  • more life or death,
  • more coal-and-ice,
  • most bottomline,
  • more meat-and-potatoes,
  • under lined,
  • more bottom-line,
  • more name of the game,
  • most nitty gritty,
  • most coal-and-ice,
  • most underlined,
  • most life-or-death,
  • most bottom line,
  • nittygritty,
  • most nittygritty,
  • more bottom line,
  • coal and ice,
  • most name-of-the-game,
  • most meat-and-potatoes,
  • more nittygritty,
  • under-lined,
  • bottomline,
  • more coal and ice,
  • most bottom-line,
  • more life-or-death,
  • most name of the game.
  •well-known (adjective)
  • wellknown,
  • more somebody,
  • super-starrer,
  • super-starrest,
  • in famous,
  • most celeb,
  • in public eye,
  • super star,
  • superstarrer,
  • super-star,
  • super starrer,
  • super starrest,
  • more celeb,
  • well known,
  • superstarrest,
  • most somebody.
  •worthwhile (adjective)
  • most money making,
  • most paying,
  • more paying,
  • money making,
  • most money-making,
  • more money making,
  • re warding,
  • more money-making,
  • re-warding.

• n.

  •
  • affect.
  •all-important (noun)
  • all-important.
  •alpha (noun)
  • alpha.
  •arch (noun)
  • arch.
  •big (noun)
  • big.
  •boss (noun)
  • boss.
  •burning (noun)
  • burning.
  •cardinal (noun)
  • cardinal.
  •chief (noun)
  • chief.
  •copernican (noun)
  • copernican.
  •crucial (noun)
  • crucial.
  •decisive (noun)
  • decisive.
  •distinguished (noun)
  • distinguished,
  • eminent.
  •earthshaking (noun)
  • earthshaking.
  •epoch-making (noun)
  • epoch-making.
  •epochal (noun)
  • epochal.
  •evidential (noun)
  • evidential.
  •evidentiary (noun)
  • evidentiary.
  •great (noun)
  • great.
  •grievous (noun)
  • grievous.
  •head (noun)
  • head.
  •heavy (noun)
  • heavy.
  •immodest (noun)
  • immodest.
  •important (noun)
  • most-valuable,
  • useful,
  • primal,
  • top,
  • probative,
  • principal,
  • portentous,
  • of the essence,
  • primary,
  • prodigious,
  • in-chief,
  • weighty,
  • main,
  • world-shattering,
  • polar,
  • large,
  • key,
  • profound,
  • measurable.
  •of the essence (noun)
  • essence.

• v.

  •distinguished (verb)
  • illustrious.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • highlight,
  • Eminency,
  • pettiness,
  • Significancy,
  • top-level,
  • much,
  • momentousness,
  • negligibility,
  • bigwig,
  • nabob,
  • fiddle-faddle,
  • dignitary,
  • reputable,
  • major league,
  • negligibleness,
  • big wheel,
  • minutia,
  • Prominency,
  • trivia,
  • inconsiderableness,
  • Illustriousness,
  • pip-squeak,
  • muckamuck,
  • big-timer,
  • big league,
  • ascendant,
  • blue-chip,
  • Trivialness,
  • needful,
  • small potatoes,
  • accentuation,
  • conspicuous,
  • premier,
  • graveness,
  • nebbish.
  •
  • indispensable,
  • importance,
  • petty,
  • required,
  • vip,
  • frivolity,
  • foremost,
  • glory,
  • shrimp,
  • zero,
  • big shot,
  • paltriness,
  • gravity,
  • significance,
  • emphasis,
  • paltry,
  • trifling,
  • notability,
  • smallness,
  • conclusive,
  • paramount,
  • nugatory,
  • prominence,
  • accentuate,
  • somebody,
  • renown,
  • someone,
  • meaty,
  • triviality,
  • measly,
  • piddling,
  • small-minded,
  • preeminence,
  • nonentity,
  • weightiness,
  • Prepotent,
  • regnant,
  • concernment,
  • small change,
  • determinative,
  • niggling,
  • underscore,
  • emphasize,
  • italicize,
  • picayune,
  • zilch,
  • cipher.
  •
  • frippery,
  • froth,
  • underline,
  • hour,
  • Fame,
  • nothing,
  • eminence,
  • stress,
  • count,
  • signify.
  •
  • consequence,
  • trifle,
  • seriousness,
  • import,
  • prime,
  • moment,
  • weigh,
  • earnest,
  • prestige,
  • first,
  • lion,
  • accent.
  •
  • personage,
  • prevailing,
  • dominant.
  •
  • luster.
  •
  • nonsense,
  • severe,
  • distinction.
  •
  • matter.
  •
  • leader.
  •
  • note.
  •
  • weight.
  •
  • character.
  •
  • mark.
  •
  • point.
  •crucial
  • acute.
  •essential
  • necessary.
  •exalted
  • high.
  •historic
  • memorable.
  •imperative
  • requisite.
  •importunate
  • pressing.
  •main
  • keynote.
  •primary
  • immediate.
  •remarkable
  • unusual.
  •tattletale
  • telltale.

Paraphrases for Important:

• Equivalence

  • Coordinating conjunction
    significant.
  • Determiner
    significant.
  • Preposition or subordinating conjunction
    significant.
  • Adjective
    significant, momentous, pivotal, major, weighty, crucial, critical, vital.
  • Proper noun, singular
    significant, major, crucial, critical, vital, essentials.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    significant, major.
  • Adverb
    significant.
  • Interjection
    significant.
  • Verb, non-3rd person singular present
    significant.
  • Verb, base form
    significant.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Adjective
    all-important.

• Independent

  • Determiner
    an.
  • Foreign word
    importante.
  • Adjective
    fundamental, pertinent, paramount, strong, preponderant, noteworthy, interesting, useful, predominant, influential, pre-eminent, remarkable, insignificant, indispensable, landmark, tremendous, dominant, worthwhile, seminal, appreciable, determinant, high-profile, far-reaching, powerful, impressive, importantthan, instrumental, outstanding, sizable, enormous, profound, noticeable, dramatic, excellent, eminent, integral, potent, imperative, keynote, massive, overriding, compelling, vast, particular, prevalent, consequential, great, immense, beneficial, topical, formidable, meaningful, transcendent, irrelevant, positive, helpful, desirable, appropriate, primordial, worthy, urgent, conspicuous, negligible, difficult, keen.
  • Proper noun, singular
    Criteria, comments, Keys, great.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    landmark, imperative, meaningful.
  • Adverb
    significantly, great, substantially, prominently, critically.
  • Interjection
    urgent.
  • Verb, past tense
    stressed.
  • Verb, non-3rd person singular present
    are.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    substantial.
  • Proper noun, singular
    substantial.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    substantial.

Antonyms for Important:

• adj.

  • all
    unimportant.
  • eminent, influential, outstanding
    usual, impotent, ineffective, normal, ordinary, common, incapable.
  • valuable, substantial
    dull, inappreciable, short, unknown, inessential, minor, narrow, small, little, insignificant, secondary, nonessential, weak, optional, miniature, trivial, tiny, meaningless, voluntary, unsubstantial, useless, unnecessary, uncritical, powerless.
  • Other antonyms:
    worthless, unqualified, inexpert, unfit, reserved, diffident, compliant, sheepish, shy, unassuming, retiring, unobtrusive, cringing, mousy, passive, incompetent, introverted, unaggressive, cowering, acquiescent, feeble, bashful, quiet, shrinking, demure, lowly, meek, deferential, frail, unskillful, submissive, Self-reproving, anonymous, timid, inept, unpretentious, unassertive, overmodest, unskilled, yielding, uninfluential, infirm, humble, subdued, down-to-earth.