Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Importantly \Im*por"tant*ly\, adv. In an important manner.
Wiktionary
adv. 1 (context sentence adverb English) (non-gloss definition: Used to mark a statement as having importance). 2 In an important manner.
WordNet
adv. in an important way or to an important degree; "more importantly, Weber held that the manifold meaning attached to the event by the social scientist could alter his definition of the concrete event itself" [syn: significantly]
in an important way; "for centuries jellies have figured importantly among English desserts, particularly upon festive occasion"
Usage examples of "importantly".
Nothing untoward was reported or hinted at in the newspapers, and importantly, nothing was ever said or written by John Adams, who, of all men, would have been enraged by any disrespect shown a minister of the United States being presented under his sponsorship.
Just as importantly, by letting Alima live, Nadon would be allowing the man to kill more plants, more people.
Angus Gordon specialized in planning and bioengineering, but more importantly he was a lateral thinker, a leader and problem solver, not a manipulative bully.
More importantly, when Boardman returned to the hospital to question the victim again, he noticed a single black orchid by her bedside.
The custom was to slice one of these amazing cheeses up on Christmas Eve and eat it with fruit-cakes and sherried trifles and roly-poly puddings and, most importantly, honeycakes.
More importantly, you must give them the tools to fulfill their dreams.
More importantly you can control the machines of Ty Station, including the gates and the retrievers.
And more importantly, Captain Glassman was in the front wag, his hands on the windshield to keep standing.
All night long images of Ramirez, Greenway and, most importantly, Richard kept swirling through my head.
It was a disguise that left him freezing most of the time, his back aching from standing bent over for hours, but it had enabled him to study the exterior of the prison in which Francois- Louis was incarcerated, and more importantly, to establish himself as a regular fixture outside that prison.
More importantly, so, potentially, does the fate of the Mercatoria and the civilised galaxy.
The only defenses Amalfi had been able to conceive and jury-rig for He depended importantly on actually being at the metagalactic center, able to make use of the almost instant number of weak resultant forces that could be used there to produce major responses-the buttercup-vs.
Fourth, and perhaps most importantly, until the last few post-Marxist years, Soviet psychology and neurophysiology were set within a specific philosophical tradition which explicitly counterposed a dialectical understanding of mind-brain relations to the mechanistic reductionism which dominates Anglo-American science.
The mayor had strutted importantly up and down, expecting Nostradamus to move back to his chair so that the burning could commence.
Shortly afterwards Pil Bubbacub puffed importantly into the room, his sleek fur ruffled in a collar around his short fat neck.