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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
all-important
adjective
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▪ A feature of such organizations is that the means are all-important and the ends are of relatively secondary importance.
▪ Here was her big break, a star role to confirm that all-important credibility.
▪ Only his awakening to a knowledge of this all-important fact can make it possible for the higher part of himself to develop.
▪ Start the music and record one or two minutes to begin the all-important process of deep relaxation.
▪ Study past exam papers, noting the exam format, the choice of questions, and the all-important time limit.
▪ The right area for this was all-important.
▪ The search for Fedorov and Louise Müller, which had seemed all-important at the time, had been overtaken by weightier events.
▪ This cuts directly away from the usual philosophical wrangling about this all-important subject.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
all-important

all-important \all-important\ adj. prenom. 1. of the greatest importance. the all-important subject of disarmament

Syn: all important(predicate), crucial, essential, of the essence(predicate).

Wiktionary
all-important

a. Very important; vital or crucial.

WordNet
all-important

adj. of the greatest importance; "the all-important subject of disarmament"; "crucial information"; "in chess cool nerves are of the essence" [syn: all-important(a), all important(p), crucial, essential, of the essence(p)]

Usage examples of "all-important".

Already Adams was serving on twenty-three committees, and that same week was assigned to three more, including an all-important new Continental Board of War and Ordnance, of which he was to be the president.

Alison visits her two or three times a week, and in all probability confides in her fully, makes it all-important to watch her carefully.

It would be far easier to tempt mortals to evil without scales and horns ruining that all-important first impression.

Now the all-important falsehood had been told to Patrick, and in response to her praise the chief of hematology merely sighed.

The devices available to Kraft on the sampler tray have gone unchanged for a hundred years: knives, scissors, needles, thread, forceps, retractors, the all-important hemostat.

They had investigated him, since his battalion had been allotted an all-important task, and satisfied themselves that he was a nonpolitical officer who would obey the orders of his immediate superiors.

Instinctively, she caught them, while the old Parsi staggered past her and collided with the all-important chair.

Beowulf was not entirely comfortable with Frodo in such an important position in the team, but his primacy within the pack made it impossible for Beowulf to assign that all-important role to the more steady Sinbad.

In the all-important early month at least four or five thousand Boers were detained by them when their presence elsewhere would have been fatal.

The legend, the all-important legend of the golden candlesticks, was not to be allowed to play to its ending.

Though it was quite clear to Kristian from the earliest that his father did not believe a godhead to exist, the symbol and the ritual - the motions of the censers, the candles and the exquisite singing - these were all-important.

Reid so far in his study of language, because it is along this way that he came to form the concepts that were to serve him as a key for his all-important findings in the realm of sense-experience.

Here one comes back to the outstanding, all-important feature of comic postcards -- their obscenity.

Katrina, anxious to have everything perfect, spent a good deal of time with Berthe with Caspel translating for them both, discussing the all-important question of food.

His views upon the all-important question of colonising the unoccupied lands of the Dominion seemed to be wise and far-sighted.