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View synonyms for all-important

all-important

[ awl-im-pawr-tnt ]

adjective

  1. extremely or vitally important; essential.


all-important

adjective

  1. crucial; vital


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Word History and Origins

Origin of all-important1

First recorded in 1830–40

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Example Sentences

The benefits of incumbency are quite potent, especially in the all-important area of raising campaign funds.

Piketty only waves his hands around the all-important question of whether economic inequality undermines democracy.

One agent in particular developed a rapport with Zubaydah and managed to elicit an all-important bit of intelligence.

To create that all-important alcohol content, the fumes are circulated out of the still into condensers.

We look with unease on the shadow of wisdom, but refuse to examine it—and our anxiety over all-important tests deepens.

Nothing but practice—frequent, but not too long continued—can establish the all-important balance.

Yet, upon this all-important knowledge, which I was neglecting, rested my chance of independence.

I fear greatly that she has but loose ideas upon these all-important subjects.

"I shall dine here," he had said when Mr. Moulder was discussing with the waiter the all-important subject of dinner.

Strange as it may seem, some women who go fairly hard in the wake of hounds, do not realise how all-important a matter this is.

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