important [ im·por·tant ]
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1. Of great significance or value.
it is important to avoid monosyllabic answers
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2. (of a person) having high rank or status.
Suffice it to say that a very important person passed through my life this weekend.
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3. (of an artist or artistic work) significantly original and influential.
writers as important as Hopkins
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Origin
1. Late Middle English from medieval Latin important- ‘being of consequence’, from the verb importare (see import).

