Crossword clues for important
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
important
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a great/major/important discovery
▪ The archaeologists had made an important discovery.
a key/central/important concept
▪ The title tells you something about the central concept of the poem.
a major/important achievement
▪ Writing the book was a major achievement.
a major/important concession
▪ We made some major concessions in order to protect national security.
a major/important port
▪ The city became a major port.
a major/important source
▪ The lead mines were once a major source of employment for the islanders.
a serious/important matter
▪ It is a very serious matter to mislead the police.
a significant/important breakthrough
▪ Another very significant breakthrough has been made by Dr David Peacock.
a significant/important contribution
▪ All of you can make a significant contribution to the organization.
an essential/important item
▪ Salt was an important item in the Roman economy.
an important commodity
▪ Crude oil is the world’s most important commodity.
an important consequence
▪ This discovery was an important consequence of his research.
an important constraint
▪ Their religious beliefs were an important constraint on their behaviour.
an important decision
▪ My father made all the important decisions.
an important element
▪ This one fact is the most important element of the theory.
an important engagement
▪ He had an important engagement with his solicitor.
an important exhibition
▪ an important exhibition of twentieth century art
an important factor
▪ Human influence has been an important factor as regards climate change.
an important feature
▪ The final-year project is an important feature of all undergraduate courses.
an important habitat
▪ The island is an important habitat for exotic animals.
an important issue
▪ The committee met several times to discuss this important issue.
an important means
▪ Surveys are an important means of gathering information.
an important moment
▪ This was probably the most important moment in his life.
an important move
▪ I cannot decide on such an important move on my own.
an important part
▪ Fresh fruit is an important part of our diet.
an important point
▪ That’s an important point to bear in mind.
an important precedent
▪ By doing this, an important precedent was established.
an important principle
▪ One important principle is that you should give yourself plenty of reward for your success.
an important sector
▪ Sport is now recognized as an important sector of economic activity.
an important topic
▪ The legal team will discuss a number of important topics.
an important/big question
▪ The book raises important questions about nationality and the role of a citizen.
an important/crucial distinction
▪ There is an important distinction between these two types of cancer.
an important/crucial match
▪ Luckily, all their players are fit for such an important match.
an important/essential characteristic
▪ An essential characteristic of good teaching is that it must create interest in the learner.
an important/major industry
▪ Agriculture is still a major industry in Scotland.
an important/major role
▪ She played an important role in her husband’s political career.
an important/major/big step
▪ The move is seen as a major step forward for UK firms.
an important/significant aspect
▪ A person’s nationality is an important aspect of their identity.
an important/significant event
▪ It’s natural to be nervous before such an important event.
an important/significant exception
▪ The treaty was ratified by all the EU member countries, with one significant exception, Britain.
an important/significant/crucial difference
▪ A study of the two groups of students showed a significant difference.
an important/significant/major influence
▪ Parents have an important influence on children's development.
▪ He was a major influence on my musical tastes.
an important/useful/valuable clue
▪ The car used in the robbery may provide important clues.
an urgent/important message
▪ an urgent message for the commanding officer
consider it necessary/important etc to do sth
▪ I did not consider it necessary to report the incident.
critically important
▪ This is a critically important meeting.
immensely powerful/strong/important etc
▪ Nationalism is an immensely powerful force.
important news
▪ I've got some important news to tell you.
important
▪ This is an important client and we do not want to lose her.
important/serious implications
▪ The results of the experiment could have important implications for scientists.
key/major/important etc component
▪ Exercise is one of the key components of a healthy lifestyle.
seem important/right/strange etc to sb
▪ Doesn’t that seem weird to you?
severe/serious/important limitations
▪ This approach to the problem has serious limitations.
vitally important
▪ A sensible diet is vitally important if you want to remain in good health.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
▪ There are also important differences in levels of mobility between rural residents.
▪ In addition to monitoring specific diseases and syndromes, gathering information about the numerous factors that affect disease emergence is also important.
▪ It is also important to choose a quiet locality for this purpose.
▪ It is also important to determine whether a reader likes all types of Romantic Mysteries or is partial to a particular variety.
▪ However, considerations of long term safety are also important as lifelong maintenance treatment is usually recommended.
▪ It is also important that the chemical analysis of the specimen be started within 20 minutes of drawing the specimen. 191.
▪ The character of the research is also important.
▪ In less-developed nations, power from burning biomass is also important locally.
as
▪ Continuity is just as important in dialogue as in monologue.
▪ For Rice, the arts and personal evolution were as important as ideas.
▪ These are just as important and often the most painful types of fear.
▪ Acts of neighbourly kindness are as important.
▪ Ecumenically it is as important as anything.
▪ Mere winning was not as important to Ranieri as winning with style.
▪ Turnout is becoming as important an electoral indicator now as the share of the vote that each party achieves.
▪ Just as important, it gives the tomato a four-week shelf-life.
equally
▪ This international context is equally important in considering, finally, who are the principal agents of political change.
▪ A second and equally important impact of the time factor in making oil-backout investments is inflationary rises in capital costs.
▪ In local authorities, the law plays an equally important, probably more important, part in accounting standards.
▪ But equally important, learning about rabbits taught Miles, Evan, arid me more about people.
▪ There are proposals for less contentious but equally important Bills.
▪ But its other aim, left unstated, was equally important: to keep the regent in power.
▪ The standardization of textual requirements was an equally important contribution of the Hague Rules to the certainty of the ocean bill.
▪ The second audience is equally important as a justification for investigating the problem.
especially
▪ This is especially important in a home with young children.
▪ This is especially important for the abstract which accompanies the proposal.
▪ In particular, we consider two especially important parts of your work: the beginning and the end.
▪ Light intensity is especially important in relation to photosynthesis, of course.
▪ Written sources were especially important for the economic sector.
▪ This is especially important for work-inhibited children, who are typically overly dependent upon the support of others to complete school assignments.
▪ It is especially important in these cases to apply the medication effectively in order to cure the condition.
▪ On the other hand, one of the curriculum guides may represent the ideas that are especially important to me.
extremely
▪ External effects are extremely important in both Aben Humeya and La conjuracion de Venecia.
▪ A: It is extremely important.
▪ The rhythmic design and pitch scheme are therefore extremely important.
▪ Two-thirds of those questioned said that jacket copy is either extremely important or very important to them.
▪ It is therefore extremely important that the basic stances be thoroughly understood and properly practised.
how
▪ They show how important it is to consider the objectively quantifiable support provided within a relationship during a crisis.
▪ No matter how important man may become, there is some one who is always superior to him.
▪ Having known the lack of that luxury herself, she was all too aware of how important it was.
▪ I never knew how important a job was.
▪ That consulting group came to realize earlier than others how important market share was to corporate profitability.
▪ The first time Julie had to be away overnight for business, she learned how important Clara was to her son.
▪ The top of the Courage League shows just how important tomorrow's game is.
▪ Corporate employees have little feeling for how important every moment is for the entrepreneur.
increasingly
▪ Mathematics is becoming increasingly important in its applications and uses in the modern world.
▪ This latter aim is increasingly important amidst debates about what health insurance should cover.
▪ However, it has become increasingly important, too, that borrowers should not be exploited unknowingly.
▪ That question becomes increasingly important as the Pentium class of personal computers moves through its lifespan.
▪ It is the principal supplier of investment goods and armaments and an increasingly important producer of consumer and export goods.
▪ Drink was an increasingly important and self-deceiving prop in his life.
less
▪ Before that, however, consideration is given to other, relatively less important, programmes.
▪ The old differences separating one system from another now are becoming less and less important, less and less easy to define.
▪ The genitor is far less important here than the educator.
▪ Although essential to children, the tissue seems less important to healthy adults.
▪ The true cost of allowing unfettered insider dealing has become less important than what people think the true costs to be.
▪ They came about another and, seemingly, far less important matter.
▪ A calm body leads to a calm mind, and suddenly life seems brighter and worries less important.
▪ In larger cities, ties to the land are less important and homogenizing influences have a greater impact.
more
▪ Even more important were his sensitivity, tact and diplomacy in an entirely novel situation.
▪ But a habit of mind, something much more important, will stay with young people.
▪ Which is more important - children or property, especially when the property is identified with one's hold on life?
▪ But more important, they stored their data in the digital form that computers so readily digest.
▪ They've got more important things on their minds.
▪ Who controls a meeting becomes more important than the goal of the meeting.
▪ But more important is how he will use them.
▪ The longer the club goes, the more important the club becomes as a source of ideas for their personal investing.
most
▪ The most important change must be the abandonment of tariffs, and the freeing of international food exchange.
▪ Finally, the most important message we give is that the client try it.
▪ But perhaps her most important legacy was in divesting the public culture of political language and political idealism.
▪ The most important thing is to be supple, to be flexible.
▪ The most important grammatical formalisms were discussed in the previous chapter.
▪ But in government, the most important lever-the system that drives behavior most powerfully-is the budget.
▪ Orality does not seem to be the most important factor here.
▪ Mirretti admitted in court that gambling was the most important thing in his life.
particularly
▪ It is particularly important that any PR/advertising consultants advising the offeror are made aware of all relevant facts.
▪ It provided stability, a particularly important quality after the Depression.
▪ In fact, savings of electricity are particularly important in terms of reducing CO2 emissions.
▪ The ability to steer is particularly important today, with the emergence of a global economy.
▪ Carbonation plays a particularly important role in the weathering of calcareous rocks.
▪ This is particularly important in education, because many parents do not want their children traveling great distances to school.
▪ Training is particularly important to the young who've never had a job.
▪ Since the ability to draw is not seen as particularly important, this state of affairs has not come to the fore.
so
▪ Why was it so important to get Steiner back and in the time scale indicated?
▪ Here in London, the royal line of a far-off Balkan country can hardly loom so important.
▪ Why is Jennifer Smith, of all people, so important?
▪ And they have the tenacity so important in accomplishing anything of value. 2.
▪ Since thoughts are so important to the emotions and consequently to happiness, a man must learn to cultivate them.
▪ This issue is so important I will address it in greater detail later.
▪ Did he think he was so important that he could finish the cottage in his own sweet time?
very
▪ What you get from our work is small things that are very important in becoming part of your life.
▪ Clear enunciation of sounds is very important, particularly when speaking into the telephone.
▪ Is water so very important to life?
▪ On the whole it seems difficult to believe they are very important.
▪ Her taste in music, books, clothes and almost everything was different, and it was very important to respect this.
▪ The governing body's decision was guided by three very important considerations: principle, existing practice, and time.
▪ These are as yet little-known but clearly very important in the economy of the plankton.
▪ For example, intensive care beds and their support is very important.
vitally
▪ Histone is vitally important for survival.
▪ Encryption is vitally important to on-line commerce.
▪ Power relationships and relationships within informal networks are vitally important in all child care work.
▪ A vitally important way to achieve your goal is through specific word use.
▪ This concept underlies a technique for compressing video which has become vitally important in multimedia.
▪ You are important to me, and firsthand inquiry informs me that you are vitally important to your flock.
▪ I decide: When in doubt it's vitally important to keep moving.
▪ We still have to wait months for payment of vitally important benefits such as the attendance allowance.
■ NOUN
aspect
▪ Personal control over change and rational decisionmaking are important aspects of treatment.
▪ In these examples we see death and bereavement, together with other losses as an important aspect of work in counselling elderly people.
▪ Determine the three most important aspects of your life.
▪ Storage and viewing were very important aspects of an art dealer's business.
▪ In attempting to answer these questions, we will be examining some of the most important aspects of historical or comparative linguistics.
▪ The economic theory of job search has grown into an important aspect of labour economics in recent years.
▪ An important aspect of reading which must receive attention is the relationship between sound and symbol.
component
▪ Tourism is also becoming an important component of developing nations' economy because it is a source of foreign income.
▪ It does mean, however, that emotions are a very important component of attention.
▪ Training is an important component of the last two of these suggestions.
▪ Clearly, women are now an important component of the law profession.
▪ Housing may also be an important component as its relative cost increased in Britain from 1955 to 1975.
▪ Third, the choice of conservation techniques and/or other policy measures is another important component of a conservation policy.
▪ A commentator is the most important component of any major Rokkaku challenge.
▪ An important component of successful delegation is of course choosing the right people to carry out what you want.
difference
▪ There are also important differences in levels of mobility between rural residents.
▪ But there is an important difference.
▪ There were, however, important differences.
▪ At the doctrinal level there are also important differences.
▪ However, there were several important differences between the cases described in this article and Meadow's syndrome proper.
▪ This example illustrates again the important difference between semantic constraints and these sorts of pragmatic constraints.
▪ The texts still contained an important difference on the issue of maximum overall foreign troop deployments allowed to the two military blocs.
▪ There is, however, an important difference here from the contestable markets case.
element
▪ Apart from agriculture, what are the other important elements in the rural economy?
▪ An important element in Chasidic tradition is its devotion to Yiddish, even in prayer, which is usually in Hebrew.
▪ An important element is the development of a database recording all the 100,000 ships built over the last two centuries.
▪ Besides audio and pictures, written words are still an important element on television news.
▪ Conspicuous consumption became, for more groups, an important element in leisure culture.
▪ It is an important element in preventing conflicts reaching the stage of war.
▪ A important element in this kind of work and one which is often overlooked, is the discussion which takes place.
▪ Existentialism is an important element in post-war thought.
factor
▪ The relative presence or absence of the latter is an important factor in distinguishing between different categories of small town.
▪ His confidence in Hsu Fu, as much as mine, was an important factor in encouraging the rest of the crew.
▪ Yet by any measurement it is an important factor.
▪ The emergence of Real Will is therefore a very important factor to be noted.
▪ Colour is another important factor, and is not merely cosmetic.
▪ And limiting calories is the single most important factor in weight loss.
▪ One of the most important factors for maintaining beautiful skin and a glowing complexion is good circulation.
▪ The size of the audience is also an important factor to keep in mind.
feature
▪ The exedra is an important feature.
▪ Several important features of the medical history that are suggestive of malnutrition are outlined on p. 190.
▪ Introduction CROSS-BORDER portfolio investment has become an increasingly important feature of global capital markets.
▪ Many companies used to eliminate important features such as high resolution graphics or soundboard support.
▪ An important feature of this research is that it is carried out in a politically charged atmosphere.
▪ We shall see that an important feature of both the monetarist approach and our simple model is the so-called augmented Phillips curve.
▪ Two important features of Table 12.3 should be noted.
▪ They are often the most important feature of our lives, but very often the most neglected.
issue
▪ One important issue to consider is the cross-class character of these experiences.
▪ The body becomes a very important issue for them.
▪ A personal viewpoint Landscape painting provokes intensely important issues for me.
▪ The President had to be out front, leading the fight on the important issues.
▪ I now believe that we needed to build a broader consensus on this important issue before moving forward.
▪ We could not have a debate in Committee and the House deserves serious answers on this extremely important issue.
▪ The important issue regarding sample size is not the number of cases included, but how the sample cases were selected.
matter
▪ The Council effectively recognized that in a number of important matters Protestants had been right and Catholics wrong.
▪ All night long, serious, important matters were addressed; vital information was exchanged.
▪ Less than a quarter of Oxfordshire teachers believe that any important matters have been omitted from their report.
▪ These are important matters you have reported on today, and all the other days when you have come into this session.
▪ Some of the important matters that the hon. Gentleman raises have been the concern of several Select Committees.
▪ Important as these problems are, there are additional important matters which remain to be resolved.
▪ It is wrong that we should have to reply on voluntary information in such an extremely important matter.
▪ Like a marriage, the important matter is to be talking and remain talking.
part
▪ Computers have an important part to play in that wider programme.
▪ The report makes the recommendations in light of recent committments abroad ... and its felt the Glosters can play an important part.
▪ The sound of his or her own voice is in a similar way an important part of a person's self-image.
▪ Awareness of advertising, and its scrutiny and demystification are an important part of media education.
▪ Their four-year-old son Raphael is also an important part of Eric's day when he's not training.
▪ That was also the language I wrote in, and writing in it was the most important part of my life.
▪ A record of changes to items such as salary, job and grades is an important part of any record administration system.
point
▪ But there is another important point to consider.
▪ I hope that that is understood, because it is a very important point.
▪ However, there is one important point to keep in mind.
▪ This is a particularly important point.
▪ An important point is that these large-scale convection cells fit in with the dimensions of plates.
▪ The important point to note as you follow my progress is just how easy it is and how flexible.
▪ Again, the important point is to be consistent.
▪ The records of the Council Committees are historically an important point of access to information for all these groups.
question
▪ These are important questions and any doubt about the answers may lead to the Commissioner acting ultravires.
▪ And, perhaps the most important question, How do you escape, Houdini-like, from the chains of words?
▪ But I do think they are important questions.
▪ Another important question to ask yourself: Where do you want to live?
▪ But this is where important questions are raised concerning the police in society.
▪ Those are important questions that deserve cogent answers.
▪ Before we examine these problems one important question of method must be noted.
role
▪ Purchasing plays an important role in production activities.
▪ In short, authentication plays an important role in the implementation of business transaction security.
▪ Records of achievement also play an important role ill developing this coherence.
▪ As on land, local topography plays an important role in affecting the distribution of organisms.
▪ He played an important role in the first three tries as well as kicking four goals, one from the touchline.
▪ There are two chemicals that seem to have important roles in memory.
▪ What is market research, and why does it play an important role in the marketing function?
▪ It is self-evident that civil servants have an important role to play in implementing policy.
source
▪ It is an important source of the acquiescence upon which the constitution stands.
▪ Syndicated columnists are particularly susceptible to being conned by their important sources.
▪ This constituted an important source of financial support.
▪ Government was by far their most important source of income.
▪ Although bank loans are a vitally important source of finance, this is not to the complete exclusion of equity issues.
▪ This is an increasingly important source of revenue for many commercial organizations.
▪ Today they are an important source of food all over the world.
▪ Social interaction involving dialogue and argument over ideas, by its very nature, is an important source of disequilibrium.
thing
▪ The important thing is that you don't feel hungry.
▪ There are important things to do.
▪ I learnt that to love and to be patient are the most important things in the world.
▪ The important thing was that the mock-up had to be as near as possible to the specifications of the building.
▪ The important thing is that children learn to read with confidence, understanding and pleasure.
▪ The important thing about shamans is that they exist in order to bring spiritual power to bear on human pain.
▪ The important thing now, he wrote, is to finish.
▪ Each of the groups we have looked at has important things to teach us, some positive, some cautionary.
things
▪ One of the important things to take into account when designing single bed Fair Isle patterns is the length of the floats.
▪ Voting is one of the most important things you receive as a citizen.
▪ I learnt that to love and to be patient are the most important things in the world.
▪ At present, for example, I am engaged in one of the most important things I have ever done.
▪ To the new directors Because you are new in the Opera House, I am writing to tell you some important things.
▪ Several important things did happen in this election.
▪ To the young man himself the important things are no doubt the various states of his body.
▪ Most of us assume that government does the important things and voluntary efforts fill in the cracks.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
as important/clear/big etc as anything
▪ Ecumenically it is as important as anything.
every bit as good/important etc
▪ Barbara was every bit as good as she sounded.
▪ Here, the Fund runs many family projects that are less well-known but doing work that is every bit as important.
▪ If you looked through a microscope you could see that they had cheekbones every bit as good as Hope Steadman's.
▪ In terms of predicting and controlling the social environment, high technology can quite clearly be every bit as important as brute force.
▪ It is for this reason that good balanced design is every bit as important as meticulous craftsmanship.
▪ It takes no more than five minutes and tastes every bit as good at the oven-baked variety.
▪ The explanation is every bit as important as the numbers!
every bit as important/bad/good etc
▪ Barbara was every bit as good as she sounded.
▪ Here, the Fund runs many family projects that are less well-known but doing work that is every bit as important.
▪ It is for this reason that good balanced design is every bit as important as meticulous craftsmanship.
▪ It takes no more than five minutes and tastes every bit as good at the oven-baked variety.
▪ The explanation is every bit as important as the numbers!
▪ The traffic was every bit as bad as had been predicted.
▪ Things every bit as bad happen there, too.
▪ To her horror it was every bit as bad as she'd feared, and possibly even a tiny bit worse.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an important meeting
▪ At least the children are safe - that's the important thing.
▪ I have an important announcement to make, so please listen carefully.
▪ It is important that everyone understands the risks involved in this plan.
▪ It is important to read the instructions carefully before you start.
▪ J. S. Bach is the most important Baroque composer.
▪ Next Thursday's game is very important - if Italy lose they will be out of the World Cup.
▪ Several important politicians are calling for a change in the laws on gun control.
▪ She asked some important questions.
▪ She didn't realize how important schoolwork was until it was too late.
▪ The school is having some very important visitors next week.
▪ Which is more important to you - your family or your career?
▪ While I was a student, my parents' support and encouragement were very important to me.
▪ Young children should be given a healthy diet - that's very important.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But you do not have to be a fusion buff to appreciate Joan Bromberg's history of an important part of science.
▪ Gumbel and Sawyer are more important than ever.
▪ It is important to stress that the Chewong do not conceptualise specifically male characteristics as opposed to female ones.
▪ More important in establishing his general dominance was his closeness to the crown.
▪ Now, however, Mr Ratti has put his name on a vastly larger and more important textile trove.
▪ School is important to me and so are my friends and family.
▪ That makes film sales an increasingly important measure of profit.
▪ What is important for its value as evidence is that it is contemporary with the period under study.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Important
Important \Im*por"tant\, a. [F. important. See Import, v. t.]
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Full of, or burdened by, import; charged with great interests; restless; anxious. [Obs.]
Thou hast strength as much As serves to execute a mind very important.
--Chapman. -
Carrying or possessing weight or consequence; of valuable content or bearing; significant; weighty.
Things small as nothing . . . He makes important.
--Shak. -
Bearing on; forcible; driving. [Obs.]
He fiercely at him flew, And with important outrage him assailed.
--Spenser. -
Importunate; pressing; urgent. [Obs.]
--Shak.Syn: Weighty; momentous; significant; essential; necessary; considerable; influential; serious.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
important
mid-15c., from Middle French important and directly from Medieval Latin importantem (nominative importans), present participle of importare "be significant in," from Latin importare "bring in" (see import). Related: Importantly.
Wiktionary
important
a. Having relevant and crucial value.
WordNet
important
adj. of great significance or value; "important people"; "the important questions of the day" [syn: of import] [ant: unimportant]
important in effect or meaning; "a significant change in tax laws"; "a significant change in the Constitution"; "a significant contribution"; "significant details"; "statistically significant" [syn: significant] [ant: insignificant]
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: crucial] [ant: noncrucial]
having authority or ascendancy or influence; "an important official"; "the captain's authoritative manner" [syn: authoritative]
having or suggesting a consciousness of high position; "recited the decree with an important air"; "took long important strides in the direction of his office"
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "important".
An integral part of the court, albeit a minor one, he was, when he failed his duty, confronted by the single most important fact known to all bureaucrats of any nation or epoch: those above were not interested in excuses, only in results.
To those who lived on Abaddon, nothing was more important than those towers.
Vrej was posed insouciantly on a new foremast, and explained the delay by informing them that Acapulco was that rarest of places, an important trade-port without a single Armenian, and so he had been forced to deal with slower minds.
Tachyon, Senator Hartmann, Hiram Worchester, and other important and influential politicians and aces streamed toward the limos waiting for them, while Chrysalis, Wilde, and the other obvious jokers on the tour had to make do with the dirty, dented jeeps clustered at the rear of the cavalcade.
The flow of Iranians into Iraq, which began during the rein of the Achaemenids, initiated an important demographic trend that would continue intermittently throughout much of Iraqi history.
The scenery around it will always make it delightful, while the associations connected with the Achaian League, and the important events which have happened in the vicinity, will ever render the site interesting.
Silas Deane, a Connecticut delegate who joined the procession, assured John Adams that the Congress was to be the grandest, most important assembly ever held in America.
He had not only the responsibility of ensuring safe passage to France, but he was to consult with the Honorable John Adams on all important decisions.
John Luzac of Leyden, a lawyer, scholar, and editor, published in his Gazette de Leyde a steady variety of material supplied by Adams, including the first European translation of the new Massachusetts Constitution, which was to have an important effect in the Netherlands.
And with the energetic help of Dumas and Luzac, Adams had already arranged for its publication in English, French, and Dutch, which was no less important.
The old charge of vanity, the character flaw that Adams so often chastised himself for, had been made again, and on the floor of Congress, just as he was to assume his most important role.
For Adams it could have been one of the most important letters he ever received.
WITH LITTLE MORE than a month left to his term in office, Adams made one of the most important decisions of his presidency.
At first, Adams tried to draw Jefferson out on a variety of matters important to him.
In November of 1812, Rush sent Adams a first copy of what he considered his most important work, Medical Inquiries and Observations upon the Diseases of the Mind.