important Definition

important
adj

1. Having great value, influence, significance or effect.

Example: an important day
Thesaurus: significant, relevant, essential, serious, considerable, critical, paramount, primary, crucial, substantial, vital; Antonym: inconsequential, trivial.
2. Of great significance or value.

Example: Your happiness is important to me
3. Said of a person: having high social rank or status; eminent.

Example: an important woman in her field
Thesaurus: eminent, illustrious, well-known, influential, distinguished, prominent, noted, aristocratic, honoured, four-star, high-level; Antonym: obscure, unrecognized, unknown.
4. rather formal or literary
Pompous or pretentious.

Derivative: importance
noun

Great value, influence, significance or effect
Thesaurus: import, emphasis, point, force, sense, consequence, purport, bearing, stress, concern, prominence, consequence, moment, greatness; Antonym: triviality, insignificance, emptiness.

See also self-important.

Derivative: importantly
adverb

Etymology: 16c: French, from Latin importare to be of consequence.