Antonyms for important
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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.4 / 7 votes

1. important

   Antonyms:
   insignificant, trivial, inexpressive, irrelevant, inconsiderable, petty, mean, uninfluential, secondary, unimportant, minor

   Synonyms:
   significant, expressive, relevant, main, leading, considerable, great, dignified, influential, weighty, momentous, material, grave, essential

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:2.6 / 5 votes

1. important, of importadjective

   of great significance or value

   "important people"; "the important questions of the day"

   Antonyms:
   lightweight, immaterial, fiddling, indifferent, unimportant, uninfluential, little, piffling, piddling, modest, potty, lilliputian, inconsequent, nickel-and-dime, inconsequential, petty, small-time, footling, picayune, trivial, niggling

   Synonyms:
   authoritative, crucial, significant, of import

2. significant, importantadjective

   important in effect or meaning

   "a significant change in tax laws"; "a significant change in the Constitution"; "a significant contribution"; "significant details"; "statistically significant"

   Antonyms:
   footling, immaterial, piffling, lilliputian, unimportant, small-time, nickel-and-dime, modest, inconsequent, little, niggling, inconsequential, fiddling, lightweight, trivial, piddling, uninfluential, indifferent, potty, petty, picayune

   Synonyms:
   substantial, significant, meaning(a), of import, pregnant, authoritative, crucial

3. crucial, importantadjective

   of extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis

   "a crucial moment in his career"; "a crucial election"; "a crucial issue for women"

   Antonyms:
   piddling, potty, inconsequential, small-time, lightweight, trivial, fiddling, piffling, immaterial, nickel-and-dime, little, lilliputian, inconsequent, niggling, uninfluential, indifferent, modest, petty, picayune, unimportant, footling

   Synonyms:
   essential, all important(p), all-important(a), significant, of import, authoritative, crucial, of the essence(p)

4. authoritative, importantadjective

   having authority or ascendancy or influence

   "an important official"; "the captain's authoritative manner"

   Antonyms:
   uninfluential, little, trivial, unimportant, footling, potty, niggling, modest, nickel-and-dime, inconsequent, picayune, small-time, piddling, inconsequential, immaterial, petty, indifferent, fiddling, lightweight, piffling, lilliputian

   Synonyms:
   authorised, significant, classic, authorized, of import, crucial, authoritative, definitive, classical

5. importantadjective

   having or suggesting a consciousness of high position

   "recited the decree with an important air"; "took long important strides in the direction of his office"

   Antonyms:
   nickel-and-dime, inconsequent, small-time, inconsequential, piffling, fiddling, little, trivial, indifferent, niggling, modest, potty, footling, petty, piddling, immaterial, lilliputian, picayune, lightweight, uninfluential, unimportant

   Synonyms:
   authoritative, crucial, significant, of import

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. importantadjective

   Synonyms:
   momentous, material, essential, pompous, consequential

How to use important in a sentence?

1. Stephen Harper:

   But we understand, and it's important that everyone who's looking at this system understands, that this is an unusual situation where in the marketplace you have two large suppliers - the two big railway companies - where they have extraordinary market power, and we simply cannot accept outcomes where those two big companies would dictate to the market just what they think is satisfactory in their interests. That is not going to serve the wider interests of grain farmers or of the Canadian economy.

2. Quotver:

   The only thing what you can get, when you search for it is 'success'... But the most important tool for finding it is 'hardwork'...

3. Ethan Kross:

   Helpful inner monologue isn't always positive in the sense that sometimes, in working through the bad stuff, we learn from our mistakes, that sometimes involves revisiting painful experiences, extracting some important insight that helps us move on and improve.

4. Marco Aurelio Caldas:

   This is 200 years of work of a scientific institution -- the most important one in Latin America, everything is finished. Our work, our life was all in there.

5. Brian Nunamaker:

   As a parent, you feel extremely helpless to be unable to assist the most important person in the world during such a time of emergency, worst case scenarios run through your head while you are hoping for the best. The eternity of waiting for help to arrive was surprisingly non-existent in this situation. I was surprised at how quickly help had arrived in the form of a fire truck. When the firefighters arrived on the scene, Nunamaker’s daughter was limp but she was still breathing and had a pulse. His daughter arrived at the hospital and started to have another seizure, but it stopped momentarily. Nunamaker said his daughter was later transferred to VCU and was later discharged. Nunamaker told Fox 5 DC he was hoping to put the ordeal behind him, but couldn’t when he heard the news of Kelley and Bloom’s suspension. My wife and I feel terrible for the fallout that has happened to these two gentlemen, Nunamaker said in a statement to Fox 5 DC. They simply had the best interests for our daughter's care in mind.

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