essential(NECESSARY)

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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

all-important | American Dictionary

all-important
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ˈɔl ɪmˈpɔrˈtə nt/
more important than anything else:
For this sauce, fresh basil is the all-important ingredient.

Examples of all-important

all-important
So what of this preoedipal period that mingles with the all-important oedipal complex?
The all-important contextualization of these strategies as being related to power or politeness thus can't really be cross-checked.
His concept of personal knowledge encompassed the two poles of knowing and their all-important link: the objective pole linked to the personal pole through commitment.
Yet the all-important issue of diversification is not discussed.
In the late 1970s another factor has become all-important.
This contributed to giving the lyrics an all-important function in communicating with an audience prevented from responding physically and freely to the music.
Such a paragon would notice that tables and text do not always agree, dangling participial clauses occur and certain modifiers ('highly,' 'all-important') are overworked.
To complicate matters further, industrial production had stalled, while the all-important communications, energy, and transportation infrastructures had begun to break down.
Questions are the essence of research, and it takes curiosity to generate those all-important questions.
For them, an interdependence between the fate of the individual and the history of a given society was all-important.
Yet, there are not only few referees in this all-important "game," but also the subject itself has been almost entirely off-limits in the academic literature.
The idea of national economy does not satisfy this all-important requirement.
And, more generally, the right macro-policy stance may be the all-important factor in the successful reduction of poverty.
Human culture is all-important and mankind by definition flexible and adaptable.
The blank indifference my immodest claims provoked indicated a profound and utterly deep indifference to the circumstances in which these all-important images were created.
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