IMPORTANT

a.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

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.

2.
a.

Carrying or possessing weight or consequence; of valuable content or bearing; significant; weighty. Things small as nothing . . . He makes important. Shak.

3.
a.

Bearing on; forcible; driving. [Obs.] He fiercely at him flew, And with important outrage him assailed. Spenser.

4.
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Importunate; pressing; urgent. [Obs.] Shak.