important

About 310.08 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Having relevant and crucial value; having import.

   We thought it important for there to be a fire escape at the back of every building.

2. adjective Pompous; self-important.

Similar words

all-important of the essence cardinal crucial significant momentous principal noteworthy remarkable world-shaking

Often followed by

to in for role part that than and as