most importantly
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2.8
- idiom
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lo más importante
- Everyone loves a good story, and most importantly, they love creating a good story.
- perhaps most importantly
- finally and most importantly
How, and perhaps more importantly, why did this come to be?
- How, and perhaps more importantly, why did this come to be?
- He flies not only by sight, but more importantly by data.
- The market, the agents, and most importantly, the buyers.
- She's leaner, clearly taller, sportier, and most importantly more youthful.
- And perhaps most importantly, they believe in what you're doing.
- It was really delicious and most importantly, the staff were so fabulous.
- It discloses the buyers plans and most importantly in this case, their financing.
- But most importantly though, it doesn't harm the sharks.
- And most importantly, people can change their minds.
- The truth is the actual truth, then, most importantly, biblical truth.
- It's waterproof, it's sterile and most importantly, it's cheap.
Examples
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But most importantly, it showed us our future wasn't out there somewhere, but here.
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Last and most importantly, enjoy your birthday.
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And then most importantly, when is the time to sell?
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A memory, most importantly, of a woman standing in front of a piece of art and feeling something.
Academic text (2017) -
But perhaps most importantly, the money was steady.
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We deserve to know, and most importantly, the families of those who died deserve better.
Blog text (4) -
Most importantly, you have given us hope again, Sergeant Blake.
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It was really delicious and most importantly, the staff were so fabulous.
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Most importantly, they all know that there's somebody who's thinking about them.
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Most importantly, most importantly, we need to focus on the quality of our work.
Synonyms
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1.0
In a way that matters a lot
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4.2
Most important in a group or area
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2.1
More than anything else
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3.9
To show that something is more important than anything else
Most of all, more important than other things
To be more important or noticeable than others
How Important
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase 'most importantly' is directly composed from the intensifier 'most' (superlative degree) and 'importantly' ('in a significant way'), so its meaning 'above all; most significantly' is inferable from the parts. This is a regular compositional pattern (superlative + adverb) found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents can readily understand it.
Etymology
Most importantly joins most, meaning the biggest or top, and importantly, meaning 'with importance'. Imagine a list where you point to the top item. So we use Most importantly to show which idea 'matters most'.