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adj. Strongly affecting the course of events or the nature of things; significant: an important message that must get through; close friends who are important to me.

adj. Having or suggesting a consciousness of high position or authority; authoritative: recited the decree with an important air.

adj. Obsolete Importunate.

adj. Having relevant and crucial value.

adj. Full of, or burdened by, import; charged with great interests; restless; anxious.

adj. Carrying or possessing weight or consequence; of valuable content or bearing; significant; weighty.

adj. Bearing on; forcible; driving.

adj. Importunate; pressing; urgent.

Of much import; bearing weight or consequence; momentous; grave; significant.

Consequential; pretentious; pompous: as, an important manner.

[Appar. confused with importunate. Cf. importunate, 1.] Importunate; eager; pressing.

adj. having authority or ascendancy or influence

adj. having or suggesting a consciousness of high position

adj. of extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis

adj. of great significance or value

adj. important in effect or meaning

"This approach to community policing and its focus on dealing with low level crime is important and over the last 40 years the direction of the police, particularly in London has oscillated between the ‘Bobby on the beat’ and dealing with the big, ’important’ crimes that the Police Federation and John Denham Chair of the Home Office Select Committee seem to want them to go back to pursuing."

influential    immodest    polar    life-or-death    critical    decisive    pivotal    life-and-death    all-important    grievous   

unimportant    trivial    insignificant   

VIP    importance    importantly    import    unimportant   

importantness   

essential    weighty    significant    momentous    considerable    necessary    serious    influential    restless    anxious   

unimportant   

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new    significant    difficult