Word Finder - important

definition

Having relevant and crucial value.

example

It is very important to give your daughter independence in her life so she learns from experience.

definition

Pompous; self-important.

I had to talk over a very important matter with him.

What's important is that you're alive.

What could possibly be more important to us than saving lives?

Our credibility is important to us.

He asks you to come to him at once on a very important matter.

At the moment he was one of the most important people in her life.

Is it really important?

Then he just makes all the important decisions - and you have no input?

You are more important to me than having children.

Why was it suddenly so important to be attractive?

Prince Vasili, who still occupied his former important posts, formed a connecting link between these two circles.

That's why more current dates are more important and far easier to verify.

They can't understand that all those feelings they prize so--all our feelings, all those ideas that seem so important to us, are unnecessary.

The day after the review, Boris, in his best uniform and with his comrade Berg's best wishes for success, rode to Olmutz to see Bolkonski, wishing to profit by his friendliness and obtain for himself the best post he could--preferably that of adjutant to some important personage, a position in the army which seemed to him most attractive.

In Prince Andrew's eyes Speranski was the man he would himself have wished to be--one who explained all the facts of life reasonably, considered important only what was rational, and was capable of applying the standard of reason to everything.

He was meeting Helene in Vilna after not having seen her for a long time and did not recall the past, but as Helene was enjoying the favors of a very important personage and Boris had only recently married, they met as good friends of long standing.

Kutuzov made a grimace and sent an order to Dokhturov to take over the command of the first army, and a request to the duke--whom he said he could not spare at such an important moment--to return to him.

This was Raevski, who had spent the whole day at the most important part of the field of Borodino.

At that very time, in circumstances even more important than retreating without a battle, namely the evacuation and burning of Moscow, Rostopchin, who is usually represented as being the instigator of that event, acted in an altogether different manner from Kutuzov.

Mavra Kuzminichna concluded that he was a very important man.

It is natural for a man who does not understand the workings of a machine to imagine that a shaving that has fallen into it by chance and is interfering with its action and tossing about in it is its most important part.

But these were only suppositions, which seemed important to the younger men but not to Kutuzov.

But there were more important things to think about at the moment.

It's not only Quinn and his machines that are important; I need guidance even more.

I just hope there isn't something truly important she's trying to tell us but is too afraid to say.

If you think it's important.

I think that there are very few important communications made through it.

What news! how much more important to know what that is which was never old!

To be so sent meant not only a reward but an important step toward promotion.

Some, as if unwilling to distract her from an important occupation, came up to her for a moment and made haste to go away, refusing to let her see them off.

At the time of the meeting at Tilsit he asked the names of those who had come with Napoleon and about the uniforms they wore, and listened attentively to words spoken by important personages.

You don't know how important you are to me, how much you've done for me....

The sleeve of his coat kept slipping down and he always carefully rolled it up again with his left hand, as if it were most important that the sinewy white arm he was flourishing should be bare.

But now it seemed to him that that meeting had had in it something very important and poetic.

But he also knew (or rather felt at the bottom of his heart) that by resigning himself now to the force of circumstances and to those who were guiding him, he was not only doing nothing wrong, but was doing something very important--more important than anything he had ever done in his life.

In their attitude toward him could still be felt both uncertainty as to who he might be – perhaps a very important person – and hostility as a result of their recent personal conflict with him.

Prince Andrew dimly realized that all this was trivial and that he had more important cares, but he continued to speak, surprising them by empty witticisms.

Only Count Orlov-Denisov with his Cossacks (the least important detachment of all) got to his appointed place at the right time.

It seemed to him that he was thinking of nothing, but far down and deep within him his soul was occupied with something important and comforting.

Can a man so important and necessary to society be also my husband?

Is being in control so important that you're willing to sacrifice the happiness of your only son?

This thing happens to be very important to me.

If it's that important to you, I'll find some one to take care of the ranch.

Money is important... but didn't you find it ... exciting?

I'm sure if he sees how important this is to you, he'll relent.

She couldn't take everything this trip, but she had the most important stuff.

I considered this suggestion carefully, then I told Mr. Rhoades that I should be proud and glad to have wise friends to whom I could always turn for advice in all important matters.

She now tells stories in which the imagination plays an important part.

He had a brilliant position in society thanks to his intimacy with Countess Bezukhova, a brilliant position in the service thanks to the patronage of an important personage whose complete confidence he enjoyed, and he was beginning to make plans for marrying one of the richest heiresses in Petersburg, plans which might very easily be realized.

Peronskaya was pointing out to the countess the most important people at the ball.