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important

(ɪmpɔːʳtənt )

1. adjective A1

Something that is important is very significant, is highly valued, or is necessary.

Her sons are the most important thing in her life.

The planned general strike represents an important economic challenge to the government.

This gold is every bit as important to me as it is to you.

It's important to answer her questions as honestly as you can.

It was important that he rest.

Synonyms: valued, loved, prized, dear

importantly adverb B1

I was hungry, and, more importantly, my children were hungry.

2. adjective B1

Someone who is important has influence or power within a society or a particular group.

He was the most important person on the island.

...an important figure in the media world.

Synonyms: powerful, leading, prominent, commanding

Collocations:

important indicator

I know a newspaper quiz isn't much in the grand scheme of things, but it's an important indicator of something bigger.

Times,Sunday Times

Correct speech was an 'important indicator of police professionalism' and demonstrated an officer's intelligence and competence.

Times, Sunday Times

The matric exam results are an important indicator of the quality of the country's education system.

Executive pessimism, in turn, has been an important indicator of a persistent weakness in capital spending and hiring that has surprised economists.

Globe and Mail

Unfortunately, the political drive to cut costs has rewarded the creation of superpractices where size becomes the most important indicator of merit.

Times, Sunday Times

important insight

There are many stories to be told, and this film offers an important insight - it may well leave you emotional.

The Sun

Here surfaces a hugely important insight that we find reiterated everywhere.

Christianity Today

And this may be the most important insight that comes with aging.

Christianity Today

The book collects 50 such pieces, each providing a surprising finding or an important insight.

Times, Sunday Times

The inclusion of traditional, deductive expositions and story sermons highlights an important insight of the book: that expository and narrative preaching are not on opposite ends of the spectrum.

Christianity Today

important issue

Spread the word on this important issue.

The Sun (2011)

Moreover, although there was an important issue of free speech involved in comparative advertising other more complex factors were involved too.

Times, Sunday Times (2007)

The club finds all forms of discrimination abhorrent and we are proud of the work we undertake campaigning on this important issue.

Times, Sunday Times (2011)

It is not good politics to have an 80 per cent approval rating on the 17th most important issue of the day.

Times, Sunday Times (2011)

Announcing big increases in budget speeches and conference speeches without consultation is an irresponsible way to make policy on such an important issue.

Times, Sunday Times (2016)

important lesson

And now the next important lesson about rally driving: never, ever, assume that you are home and dry.

Times, Sunday Times (2007)

What is the most important lesson you have learnt about money?

Times, Sunday Times (2008)

The frustration of this period taught me an important lesson.

Christianity Today (2000)

What was its most important lesson for the economy?

Times, Sunday Times (2017)

important milestone

We're about to pass an important milestone for any company: hiring our first employee.

Times, Sunday Times

He said that the flotation was 'an important milestone for our business following a number of years of strong growth'.

Times, Sunday Times

Signing this agreement next month will be an important milestone.

Times, Sunday Times

This month it passed an important milestone.

Times, Sunday Times

Local human rights groups said that the conviction was an important milestone in ending judicial impunity for ranchers in the region.

Times, Sunday Times

important part of

Charisma, too, is an important part of being a religious leader.

Times, Sunday Times (2012)

Sheep farming is an important part of the island's culture and economy; lamb is part of the sea eagle diet.

Times, Sunday Times (2015)

The tight-head prop is the most important part of a team.

Times, Sunday Times (2007)

Many of the findings and theories of history and anthropology (particularly cultural anthropology and archaeology) form an important part of this book.

Sanderson, Stephen K. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies (1995)

important step

Electric cars are an important step towards cutting vehicle emissions.

Times, Sunday Times (2018)

That the threat of ecological damage is enough to influence policy, instead of policymakers requiring some absolute standard of proof, is an important step forward.

Levenson, Thomas Ice Time: Climate, Science, and Life on Earth (1990)

So getting together to make something in the same space was an important step towards our target.

The Sun (2012)

This was an enormous and hugely important step forward.

Times, Sunday Times (2006)

important thing

The important thing is not to be caught napping.

Times, Sunday Times (2009)

Ultimately, the most important thing you can do to protect yourself is to attend your cervical screening appointments religiously.

Times, Sunday Times (2014)

For you, the most important thing is to keep attending cervical screening appointments.

Times, Sunday Times (2015)

The important thing is just to keep your feet on the ground.

Times, Sunday Times (2009)

I think the most important thing about style is to be discerning and never turn your back on something you love, otherwise you'll regret it.

Times, Sunday Times (2010)

important topic

This week's lesson provides an overview of this important topic.

Christianity Today

Preachers laboring to convince worshipers about the most important topic — salvation — have long used the invitation as a way to solidify decisions.

Christianity Today

It's an important topic because it influences the sport, but it was distasteful of me.

Times, Sunday Times

Don't miss your chance to debate this profoundly important topic.

Times, Sunday Times

The report said that population growth was only beginning to be recognised as an important topic in international negotiations on climate change.

Times, Sunday Times

increasingly important

He stressed that stealth technologies will become increasingly important.

Times,Sunday Times

Interaction networks are an increasingly important feature of modern business life.

Times, Sunday Times

For education providers such as these, shared expertise can provide strength at a time when electronic publishing has become increasingly important.

Times, Sunday Times

It will become increasingly important for advertisers to understand the distribution channels available, he said.

Times, Sunday Times

Money has become an increasingly important criterion for admission rather than intellectual excellence.

Times, Sunday Times

incredibly important

Then, if by some miracle we found one, the idea of introducing a whole new incredibly important person into our family, for ever ?

Times,Sunday Times

This incredibly important documentary will only add to that.

The Sun

Mosses, liverworts and hornworts — all bryophytes — are incredibly important to the world we live in.

Times, Sunday Times

Historians said yesterday the 'incredibly important' photograph was the earliest of a rugby match.

Times, Sunday Times

But it's incredibly important that coaches are full of character.

Christianity Today

particularly important

Capital allowances are particularly important for manufacturers.

Times, Sunday Times (2015)

It is particularly important to get to grips with warranties and service agreements.

Times, Sunday Times (2006)

Secondly, certain other patients have a narrowing of a particularly important coronary artery or combination of coronary arteries.

Wallace, Louise M & Bundy, Christine Coping with Angina (1990)

Here are some particularly important brain nutrients.

Times, Sunday Times (2008)

This is particularly important if such times follow long years of comparative calm, ease, and predictability.

Peter F. Drucker MANAGING IN TURBULENT TIMES (1980)

potentially important

These are all potentially important supply-side reforms that could boost productivity in the long term, but the government needs plans to encourage near-term investment.

Times,Sunday Times

This expansion has potentially important implications for subtropical societies and may lead to profound changes in the global climate system.

Times, Sunday Times

The main challenges arose out of the destruction or concealment of potentially important evidence.

Times, Sunday Times

It was enough to convince some officers that they had discovered a potentially important link.

Times, Sunday Times

They said taking the extensions out of the planning system will leave experts powerless to examine potentially important archaeological sites before they are disturbed.

Times, Sunday Times

profoundly important

Yet they are a profoundly important part of our emotional story.

Times, Sunday Times

They are a 'stepping stone to success', a 'profoundly important experience', or, alternatively, 'the best thing that ever happened to you'.

Times, Sunday Times

Don't miss your chance to debate this profoundly important topic.

Times, Sunday Times

I wonder how critically he has thought about the issues involved in this profoundly important debate.

Times, Sunday Times

There were, however, profoundly important liturgical differences.

The Times Literary Supplement

strategically important

These islands, with their base, number among the most strategically important acres on the planet.

Times, Sunday Times

The deal was regarded as 'pricey' by analysts but 'strategically important'.

Times, Sunday Times

The base was so strategically important that its existence was officially denied.

The Sun

Essentially, she was making her decisions about acceptable collateral damage from a strategically important military installation situated at the end of my garden.

Times, Sunday Times

The government was mulling a sale of half of its holding but it decided last year to hold on to the strategically important asset.

Times, Sunday Times

symbolically important

Its much-vaunted arrival had been regarded as a symbolically important breakthrough in attempts backed by ministers to break up the dominance of the big five established banks.

Times, Sunday Times

The dissident movement was symbolically important but offered no serious challenge to the regime.

Times, Sunday Times

Some of these groups contain a specific, symbolically important number of deities.

Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0

Many interpreted the ceremony as a symbolically important new start for the war-torn nation.

Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0

Orthographic debates are focused on political and social issues rather than on linguistic discrepancies, which can make for intense debates characterized by ideologically charged stances and symbolically important decisions.

Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0

terribly important

It made me realise it was terribly important to people that we are happy together and a very solid partnership.

Times, Sunday Times (2016)

Winning is not terribly important, although it does improve the atmosphere.

Times, Sunday Times (2017)

A siesta is terribly important.

Times, Sunday Times (2016)

It may be a terribly important village.

Times, Sunday Times (2007)

It is terribly important he is his own man.

The Sun (2011)

tremendously important

Cuddling and touch of any sort are tremendously important for health and wellbeing.

Times, Sunday Times

Tedious as the situations you're facing are, those seemingly minor facts you ignore could prove tremendously important within a matter of days.

Times, Sunday Times

He was possessed of an endearing faith that writers are tremendously important people - which often came as a surprise to them.

Times,Sunday Times

It's tremendously important that all of our processes be designed to build maturity.

Christianity Today

Looking after teddy was tremendously important.

Times, Sunday Times

vitally important

Education services, of course, are a vitally important aid to parents in providing schooling and ancillary services.

Brown, Muriel & Payne Sarah Introduction to Social Administration in Britain (1990)

These illiquid assets are choking off the flow of credit that is so vitally important to our economy.

Times, Sunday Times (2008)

It is vitally important that witnesses and possible victims feel confident to come forward.

Times, Sunday Times (2015)

Setting up firm foundations for the long term is vitally important to you.

The Sun (2015)

She knows that nutrition is vitally important and that supplements can help you.

Times, Sunday Times (2014)

Translations:

Chinese: 重要的, 重要的

Japanese: 重要な, 影響力のある

单词	important
释义	important (ɪmpɔːʳtənt ) 1. adjective A1 Something that is important is very significant, is highly valued, or is necessary. Her sons are the most important thing in her life. The planned general strike represents an important economic challenge to the government. This gold is every bit as important to me as it is to you. It's important to answer her questions as honestly as you can. It was important that he rest. Synonyms: valued, loved, prized, dear importantly adverb B1 I was hungry, and, more importantly, my children were hungry. 2. adjective B1 Someone who is important has influence or power within a society or a particular group. He was the most important person on the island. ...an important figure in the media world. Synonyms: powerful, leading, prominent, commanding Collocations: important indicator I know a newspaper quiz isn't much in the grand scheme of things, but it's an important indicator of something bigger. Times,Sunday Times Correct speech was an 'important indicator of police professionalism' and demonstrated an officer's intelligence and competence. Times, Sunday Times The matric exam results are an important indicator of the quality of the country's education system. ST Executive pessimism, in turn, has been an important indicator of a persistent weakness in capital spending and hiring that has surprised economists. Globe and Mail Unfortunately, the political drive to cut costs has rewarded the creation of superpractices where size becomes the most important indicator of merit. Times, Sunday Times important insight There are many stories to be told, and this film offers an important insight - it may well leave you emotional. The Sun Here surfaces a hugely important insight that we find reiterated everywhere. Christianity Today And this may be the most important insight that comes with aging. Christianity Today The book collects 50 such pieces, each providing a surprising finding or an important insight. Times, Sunday Times The inclusion of traditional, deductive expositions and story sermons highlights an important insight of the book: that expository and narrative preaching are not on opposite ends of the spectrum. Christianity Today important issue Spread the word on this important issue. The Sun (2011) Moreover, although there was an important issue of free speech involved in comparative advertising other more complex factors were involved too. Times, Sunday Times (2007) The club finds all forms of discrimination abhorrent and we are proud of the work we undertake campaigning on this important issue. Times, Sunday Times (2011) It is not good politics to have an 80 per cent approval rating on the 17th most important issue of the day. Times, Sunday Times (2011) Announcing big increases in budget speeches and conference speeches without consultation is an irresponsible way to make policy on such an important issue. Times, Sunday Times (2016) important lesson And now the next important lesson about rally driving: never, ever, assume that you are home and dry. Times, Sunday Times (2007) What is the most important lesson you have learnt about money? Times, Sunday Times (2008) The frustration of this period taught me an important lesson. Christianity Today (2000) What was its most important lesson for the economy? Times, Sunday Times (2017) important milestone We're about to pass an important milestone for any company: hiring our first employee. Times, Sunday Times He said that the flotation was 'an important milestone for our business following a number of years of strong growth'. Times, Sunday Times Signing this agreement next month will be an important milestone. Times, Sunday Times This month it passed an important milestone. Times, Sunday Times Local human rights groups said that the conviction was an important milestone in ending judicial impunity for ranchers in the region. Times, Sunday Times important part of Charisma, too, is an important part of being a religious leader. Times, Sunday Times (2012) Sheep farming is an important part of the island's culture and economy; lamb is part of the sea eagle diet. Times, Sunday Times (2015) The tight-head prop is the most important part of a team. Times, Sunday Times (2007) Many of the findings and theories of history and anthropology (particularly cultural anthropology and archaeology) form an important part of this book. Sanderson, Stephen K. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies (1995) important step Electric cars are an important step towards cutting vehicle emissions. Times, Sunday Times (2018) That the threat of ecological damage is enough to influence policy, instead of policymakers requiring some absolute standard of proof, is an important step forward. Levenson, Thomas Ice Time: Climate, Science, and Life on Earth (1990) So getting together to make something in the same space was an important step towards our target. The Sun (2012) This was an enormous and hugely important step forward. Times, Sunday Times (2006) important thing The important thing is not to be caught napping. Times, Sunday Times (2009) Ultimately, the most important thing you can do to protect yourself is to attend your cervical screening appointments religiously. Times, Sunday Times (2014) For you, the most important thing is to keep attending cervical screening appointments. Times, Sunday Times (2015) The important thing is just to keep your feet on the ground. Times, Sunday Times (2009) I think the most important thing about style is to be discerning and never turn your back on something you love, otherwise you'll regret it. Times, Sunday Times (2010) important topic This week's lesson provides an overview of this important topic. Christianity Today Preachers laboring to convince worshipers about the most important topic — salvation — have long used the invitation as a way to solidify decisions. Christianity Today It's an important topic because it influences the sport, but it was distasteful of me. Times, Sunday Times Don't miss your chance to debate this profoundly important topic. Times, Sunday Times The report said that population growth was only beginning to be recognised as an important topic in international negotiations on climate change. Times, Sunday Times increasingly important He stressed that stealth technologies will become increasingly important. Times,Sunday Times Interaction networks are an increasingly important feature of modern business life. Times, Sunday Times For education providers such as these, shared expertise can provide strength at a time when electronic publishing has become increasingly important. Times, Sunday Times It will become increasingly important for advertisers to understand the distribution channels available, he said. Times, Sunday Times Money has become an increasingly important criterion for admission rather than intellectual excellence. Times, Sunday Times incredibly important Then, if by some miracle we found one, the idea of introducing a whole new incredibly important person into our family, for ever ? Times,Sunday Times This incredibly important documentary will only add to that. The Sun Mosses, liverworts and hornworts — all bryophytes — are incredibly important to the world we live in. Times, Sunday Times Historians said yesterday the 'incredibly important' photograph was the earliest of a rugby match. Times, Sunday Times But it's incredibly important that coaches are full of character. Christianity Today particularly important Capital allowances are particularly important for manufacturers. Times, Sunday Times (2015) It is particularly important to get to grips with warranties and service agreements. Times, Sunday Times (2006) Secondly, certain other patients have a narrowing of a particularly important coronary artery or combination of coronary arteries. Wallace, Louise M & Bundy, Christine Coping with Angina (1990) Here are some particularly important brain nutrients. Times, Sunday Times (2008) This is particularly important if such times follow long years of comparative calm, ease, and predictability. Peter F. Drucker MANAGING IN TURBULENT TIMES (1980) potentially important These are all potentially important supply-side reforms that could boost productivity in the long term, but the government needs plans to encourage near-term investment. Times,Sunday Times This expansion has potentially important implications for subtropical societies and may lead to profound changes in the global climate system. Times, Sunday Times The main challenges arose out of the destruction or concealment of potentially important evidence. Times, Sunday Times It was enough to convince some officers that they had discovered a potentially important link. Times, Sunday Times They said taking the extensions out of the planning system will leave experts powerless to examine potentially important archaeological sites before they are disturbed. Times, Sunday Times profoundly important Yet they are a profoundly important part of our emotional story. Times, Sunday Times They are a 'stepping stone to success', a 'profoundly important experience', or, alternatively, 'the best thing that ever happened to you'. Times, Sunday Times Don't miss your chance to debate this profoundly important topic. Times, Sunday Times I wonder how critically he has thought about the issues involved in this profoundly important debate. Times, Sunday Times There were, however, profoundly important liturgical differences. The Times Literary Supplement strategically important These islands, with their base, number among the most strategically important acres on the planet. Times, Sunday Times The deal was regarded as 'pricey' by analysts but 'strategically important'. Times, Sunday Times The base was so strategically important that its existence was officially denied. The Sun Essentially, she was making her decisions about acceptable collateral damage from a strategically important military installation situated at the end of my garden. Times, Sunday Times The government was mulling a sale of half of its holding but it decided last year to hold on to the strategically important asset. Times, Sunday Times symbolically important Its much-vaunted arrival had been regarded as a symbolically important breakthrough in attempts backed by ministers to break up the dominance of the big five established banks. Times, Sunday Times The dissident movement was symbolically important but offered no serious challenge to the regime. Times, Sunday Times Some of these groups contain a specific, symbolically important number of deities. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Many interpreted the ceremony as a symbolically important new start for the war-torn nation. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Orthographic debates are focused on political and social issues rather than on linguistic discrepancies, which can make for intense debates characterized by ideologically charged stances and symbolically important decisions. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 terribly important It made me realise it was terribly important to people that we are happy together and a very solid partnership. Times, Sunday Times (2016) Winning is not terribly important, although it does improve the atmosphere. Times, Sunday Times (2017) A siesta is terribly important. Times, Sunday Times (2016) It may be a terribly important village. Times, Sunday Times (2007) It is terribly important he is his own man. The Sun (2011) tremendously important Cuddling and touch of any sort are tremendously important for health and wellbeing. Times, Sunday Times Tedious as the situations you're facing are, those seemingly minor facts you ignore could prove tremendously important within a matter of days. Times, Sunday Times He was possessed of an endearing faith that writers are tremendously important people - which often came as a surprise to them. Times,Sunday Times It's tremendously important that all of our processes be designed to build maturity. Christianity Today Looking after teddy was tremendously important. Times, Sunday Times vitally important Education services, of course, are a vitally important aid to parents in providing schooling and ancillary services. Brown, Muriel & Payne Sarah Introduction to Social Administration in Britain (1990) These illiquid assets are choking off the flow of credit that is so vitally important to our economy. Times, Sunday Times (2008) It is vitally important that witnesses and possible victims feel confident to come forward. Times, Sunday Times (2015) Setting up firm foundations for the long term is vitally important to you. The Sun (2015) She knows that nutrition is vitally important and that supplements can help you. Times, Sunday Times (2014) Translations: Chinese: 重要的, 重要的 Japanese: 重要な, 影響力のある
随便看	come full circle come/get to the point come/go to someone's aid come hell or high water come hell or high water come home to roost come home to roost come in come in for come in from the cold come in handy come into come into contact come into effect come into its own come into one's/its own come into one's own come into operation come into operation/put sth into operation come into play come into play/be brought into play come in useful comely come naturally come nowhere near