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Answer for the clue "Of great importance ", 7 letters:
crucial

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1706, "cross-shaped," from French crucial , a medical term for ligaments of the knee (which cross each other), from Latin crux (genitive crucis ) "cross" (see cross (n.)). The meaning "decisive, critical" (1830) is extended from a logical term, Instantias ...

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis; "a crucial moment in his career"; "a crucial election"; "a crucial issue for women" [syn: important ] [ant: noncrucial ] having crucial relevance; "crucial to the case"; "relevant testimony" ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a critical/crucial moment (= a very important moment ) ▪ This was a critical moment in the country’s history. a critical/crucial stage (= very important because it affects the future success of something ) ▪ The ...

Usage examples of crucial.

But as absolutely crucial and important as experiential disclosures are, they can be finally assimilated only in a subjective structure that grows and evolves to meet the demand, and experiences thrown at a subject do not necessarily and profoundly grow the subject itself.

Grant was thinking that this was about the fiftieth urgent agendum that had been pressed upon him, each more crucial than the other, and he was becoming powerless to evaluate them, but he did acknowledge that he had two personal obligations which had to be considered seriously.

The crucial comparison is between B and E, since, although E has tasted the bead, it is amnesic and pecks it later.

The crucial point in making our plans and preparations was the availability of the special landing-craft required for effecting the initial landing on the very heavily defended enemy coastline.

This aspect of labour management was the crucial difference between biomechanics and the Delsarte-Dalcrozean school.

So after being perfectly outmaneuvered by committee and bumped upstairs to Commander of the new Starflight Agency, there was nothing left for him except bitching to Oscar and Anna about losing crucial people at critical times because they were needed to establish a duplicate facility at High Angel.

And Chicano activists soon learned that a two-minute news feature on KMEX was crucial to the success of a mass rally, because TV was the only way to reach a mass Chicano audience in a hurry.

The doorkeeper conveyed the crucial information only when it could no longer be of use to the man.

The crucial test would come when the senators and representatives, elected under the Brownlow government, should apply for their seats in Congress.

And though Kraxxi doubted his father would make good on his long-standing threat to raid Eron, possession of the gem and the art of working it - or simply the knowledge it existed could make a crucial difference in failure or success.

Known as the Exon force, after the crucial two percent of human DNA that actually contains genetic information, they sported metallic silver sashes over their crimson uniforms.

Bardeen leaned forward, watching closely, as Lesa Pfluge finally came to the crucial part, the part Jody Jay hoped would damn the Feen in the public view.

It seems to me that the state of transitional fetishism is crucial -- because it involves the recognition of fetishism.

Like the other mercenaries and hard types that had worked for the late Jabba-or at least the smart ones, smart enough not to trust the wily Hutt-Boba Fett had maintained a stash of crucial supplies in the wilderness beyond the squat, iron-doored palace.

Sheila was the bright green standout, the conspicuous liberal who would surely cost Finca crucial votes.