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(adj)
Important, indispensable, crucial.
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Very important; vital or crucial.
Having relevant and crucial value; having import.
Related, connected, or pertinent to a topic.
(n)
A determining factor; an element that determines the nature of something.
Having the power or quality of deciding a question or controversy; putting an end to contest or controversy; final; conclusive.
Necessary.
Of, relating to, or consisting of matter, especially physical.
Extremely important.
That determines something.
Being of crucial importance; central, key.
(geography) Of, relating to, measured from, or referred to a geographic pole (the North Pole or South Pole); within the Arctic or Antarctic circles.
Resulting, having resulted, or having the potential to result in a decision or conclusion.
Determinative; causal.
of great significance or value
The quality or condition of being important or worthy of note.
(music) Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for an instrument, especially a musical instrument (rather than the human voice).
Describing a “natural” number used to indicate quantity (e.g., zero, one, two, three), as opposed to an ordinal number indicating relative position.
Essential; crucial; extremely important.
Outstanding in importance, of great consequence.
Having a noticeable or major effect.
Large in size, quantity, or value; ample; significant.
Primary; most important; first level in importance.
Elementary, simple, fundamental, merely functional.
determining finally, conclusive, decisive
The basic, central, or essential point or feature.
Of chief or leading importance; prime, principal.
First or earliest in a group or series.
Free from any doubt.
First in importance, degree, or rank.
Of the essence or essential element of a thing.
Significant; worth considering.
Essential to own.
(by extension) The information required to have a basic understanding of a topic.
(often postpositive) Highest, supreme; also, chief, leading, pre-eminent.
Essential; extremely important.
The inherent nature of a thing or idea.
(countable) The main idea or substance, or the most essential part, of a longer or more complicated matter; the crux, the heart, the pith.
Serving to define or distinguish.
Having a broad range, scope, or influence.
Providing an end to something; decisive.
Fundamental or underlying.
(literary) True, real, actual.
Having a great value.
Of or pertaining to strategy.
Momentous, significant, setting or sealing one’s fate.
Being the greatest possible; maximum; most extreme.
Something that is required as necessary or indispensable, or as a prior condition of something else.
Intense; sensitive; sharp.
First, earliest or original.
Surpassing usual limits.
Belonging to, concerning, or located at a focus.
Superior; surpassing all others; extraordinary; transcendent.
Required, essential, whether logically inescapable or needed in order to achieve a desired result or avoid some penalty.
(obsolete) Large, great.
Alternative spelling of preeminent. [Exceeding others in quality or rank; of outstanding excellence, extremely notable or important.]
Greater in dignity, rank, importance, significance, or interest.
Constituting a whole together with other parts or factors; not omittable or removable.
Necessary; obligatory; mandatory.
The most extreme; greatest, ultimate.
(of a person) Easily offended, upset, or hurt.
Necessary; being required.
In the greatest or highest degree; intense.
Resulting in either success or failure.
That rules; predominant; chief; reigning; controlling.
Firm, unyielding, determined.
Providing guidance or direction.
(grammar) Of or related to the predicate of a sentence or clause.
The act or process of judging or of forming an opinion; judgment, estimation.
Extremely large; greatly exceeding the common size, extent, etc.
(adv)
In an absolute or unconditional manner; utterly, positively, wholly.
Superior, of supreme importance in the case.
(informal) Very good; excellent; wonderful; fantastic.
Of considerable or relatively great size or extent.
Necessary to the continuation of life; being the seat of life; being that on which life depends.
The practice of leaving a tip (gratuity).
Preserving life; preventing death.
Requiring immediate attention.
(idiomatic) Requiring a determined or desperate effort to avoid the consequences of failure (Alternative form of do or die).
Needing urgent attention.
Very large.
Of great size, large.
Easily damaged or requiring careful handling.
very interesting; able to capture and hold one's attention
Intending to, resulting in, or capable of disposition (disposing, disposing of, or settling a matter).
Likely to attract attention from its size or position; conspicuous.
Steadfast, secure, solid (in position)
Hard, not easy, requiring much effort.
The act of one who turns (rotates or twists).
Having great or incalculable value.
Absolutely necessary or requisite; that one cannot do without.
Impossible to avoid or prevent.
Of a process or part within a larger system, vital to the operations of the system as a whole.
Chief (in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation).
Being very important, or key to something.
Impossible to avoid; bound to happen.
Being large in size, mass, or volume (of goods, etc.).