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[ awl -im-pawr -tnt ] SHOW IPA
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adjective extremely or vitally important; essential.
Origin of all-important First recorded in 1830–40
Words nearby all-important alligator pepper, alligator shear, alligator skin, alligator snapping turtle, alligator wrench, all-important , all-in, all in a day's work, all in all, all-inclusive, Allingham
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Presently Mrs Beaumont recovered herself sufficiently to put an all-important question.
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Nor could the searchlights be switched on without grave risk to the all-important task of rounding-up the German torpedo-boats.
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It was the first confident answer to the all-important question.
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What to many was but the fad or fashionable craze of the hour, was to him the all-important and absorbing purpose of living.
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