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Very important or urgent
all-important
at all costsidiom
be a matter of life and/or deathidiom
cardinally
chief
imperative
last
last but not leastidiom
leading
life-altering
life-and-death
overriding
primary
prime
principally
prior
prized
seminal
tectonic
weighty

paramount | American Dictionary

paramount
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ˈpær·əˌmɑʊnt/
more important than anything else:
Everybody agrees that education is the paramount issue.

Examples of paramount

paramount
Trustworthiness of the engineers was also paramount in attempts to establish railway locomotives as a safe, reliable, and cheap form of transportation.
In terms of pre-requisites for the success of consociationalism, the presence of consensus democracy is often mentioned as paramount.
Furthermore, while document processing concentrates on paragraph retrieval in the former instance, reference resolution throughout the entire text is paramount in the latter application.
These languages are of paramount importance to composers and performers due to their flexibility and sophistication.
Such a random discourse was unusual in pamphlets127 but paramount in newspapers.
For instance, religion, race, and sectional concerns have been paramount in many judicial nominations.
This special magnetic appeal or charm is paramount to his power and presence in front of an audience.
Ensuring adequate supplies of safe water sources is therefore of paramount importance in relation to both environment and health issues.
After all, the paramount merit of his challenges is to highlight the knotty legal cruxes that judges handle by recourse to moral principles.
This involved consolidating sixty-eight or more existing political units into approximately five hierarchical states, over which reigned paramount chiefs.
For many puritans, the need for scripturally based government was so paramount that the category of ' things indifferent ' was often squeezed down to practically nothing.
Rather, questions of trust, family and partnership squabbles, and inheritance problems were paramount.
It is of paramount importance, when constructing parameters for a lingua franca, that all of the speakers of the language are on equal footing.
Nobility, or the titled aristocracy, is the paramount example.
Ensuring adequate supplies of safe water is of paramount importance for health considerations.
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