import
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6.8
- noun
- /ˈɪmpɔrt/
- Formal
:
importancia
- It is crucial to understand the import of this decision on our future plans.
- moral import
- great import
- practical import
Race doesn't have the same import in her world that it often does in ours.
- Race doesn't have the same import in her world that it often does in ours.
- So the superposition of a state with itself has no physical import.
- And the senior analyst came over to me and he said, I think you're not understanding the import of what's happening right now.
- Is it that you have a, a, a, a job of this import and the world is on fire.
Examples
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This point seems of vital import to you, does it?
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Only then did Drizzt begin to understand the import of the raid on Mithril Hall.
Fiction book (1992) -
What is it of such import that it cannot wait till Monday?
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A small matter of great import is come to our attention sir.
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How many other cases of similar import can we point to around the world?
Academic text (1992) -
Max has seen this one himself, though its import escaped him at the time.
Fiction book (1999) -
1976 was a year of import in this nation's political history as we chose a president.
Academic text (1993) -
Our findings also carry import beyond the borders of Harris County.
Academic text (2017) -
Now I have something of grave import to say to you and to Mrs. Hillyer.
Fiction book (1991) -
You have been gathered here at this court... to give your solemn advice in a matter of great import to the Crown.
Synonyms
890
1.0
An idea a word or sign shows
807
7.2
Great importance that affects people or events
314
4.4
An explanation of what something means
308
4.3
A result or meaning suggested but not said
188
4.3
The main idea of something said or written
100
4.2
How important something is because of its effect
52
3.8
The meaning or message something has
2
7.7
The meaning that a word, sign, or symbol expresses
The qualities something must have to belong to an idea
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
A bank promise to pay a foreign seller for goods a company buys from another country
How Important
Surface Forms
Etymology
The noun import meaning 'importance' comes from the same Latin parts in- and portare, but with the sense of 'carrying meaning into' something. So the import of a speech is its 'meaning' or 'importance', and it is the same root as important.