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Designating or of a point at which a change in character, property, or condition is effected
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- Designating or of a point at which a change in character, property, or condition is effected
- Extremely important or essential:
- Designating or of important products or raw materials subject to increased production and restricted distribution under strict control, as in wartime
Necessary to continued existence or effectiveness:
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- Necessary to continued existence or effectiveness:
- Necessary to the continuation of life; life-sustaining:
- Extremely important; essential:
Having, or acting as if having, power, authority, influence, high position, etc.
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- Having, or acting as if having, power, authority, influence, high position, etc.
- Meaning a great deal; having much significance, consequence, or value
- Strongly affecting the course of events or the nature of things; significant:
Of great significance or entailing major change:
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- Of great significance or entailing major change:
- Forming or serving as an essential component of a system or structure; central:
- Most important; chief
Insistent, earnest, or persistent.
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- Insistent, earnest, or persistent.
- Demanding immediate attention; urgent:
- Persistent in request or demand; insistent
Relating to or characterized by criticism; reflecting careful analysis and judgment:
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- Relating to or characterized by criticism; reflecting careful analysis and judgment:
- Extremely important or essential:
- (Physics) Capable of sustaining a nuclear chain reaction:
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Marked by promptness and decision.
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- Marked by promptness and decision.
- Having the power or quality of deciding a question or controversy; putting an end to contest or controversy; final; conclusive.
- Determining or closely affecting what comes next; critically important; crucial
Of, relating to, or serving as a pivot.
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- Of, relating to, or serving as a pivot.
- On which something turns or depends; central, crucial, critical, etc.
- Being of crucial importance; central, key.
Determining or able to determine an outcome:
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- Determining or able to determine an outcome:
Relating to or constituting a climax.
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- Relating to or constituting a climax.
- Of, constituting, or in the order of a climax
Of utmost importance; of outstanding significance or consequence:
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- Of utmost importance; of outstanding significance or consequence:
- Of great moment; very important
Momentous, significant, setting or sealing ones fate.
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- Momentous, significant, setting or sealing ones fate.
- Vitally affecting subsequent events; being of great consequence; momentous:
- Having important consequences; often, specif., bringing death or destruction
Of the greatest importance; crucial.
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- Of the greatest importance; crucial.
- Highly important; necessary; essential
Having or expressing a covert or nonverbal meaning; suggestive:
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- Having or expressing a covert or nonverbal meaning; suggestive:
- (Statistics) Of or relating to observations or occurrences that are too closely correlated to be attributed to chance and therefore indicate a systematic relationship.
- Important; momentous
(Medicine) Of, relating to, or being a condition or a disease whose cause is unknown:
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- (Medicine) Of, relating to, or being a condition or a disease whose cause is unknown:
- (Biochemistry) Being a substance that is required for normal functioning but cannot be synthesized by the body and therefore must be included in the diet:
- Fundamentally important or necessary:
Of or constituting a single source controlling all components of a system:
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- Of or constituting a single source controlling all components of a system:
- Of basic importance; essential or principal:
- Most important; main; basic; principal
Designating, of, or resulting from a process of manufacturing steel from high-phosphorus iron, in which the refining agent is a basic slag formed from a basic furnace lining and the addition of lime
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- Designating, of, or resulting from a process of manufacturing steel from high-phosphorus iron, in which the refining agent is a basic slag formed from a basic furnace lining and the addition of lime
- Of, being, or serving as a starting point or basis:
- Of, at, or forming a base; fundamental; essential
Afflicted by a disease exhibiting a rapid onset followed by a short, severe course:
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- Afflicted by a disease exhibiting a rapid onset followed by a short, severe course:
- Of great importance or consequence; critical:
- Very serious; critical; crucial
Unsparing, harsh, or strict, as in treatment of others:
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- Unsparing, harsh, or strict, as in treatment of others:
- Causing great discomfort, damage, or distress:
- Extremely difficult to perform or endure; trying:
Compelling immediate action or attention; pressing.
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- Compelling immediate action or attention; pressing.
- Conveying a sense of pressing importance:
- Calling for haste, immediate action, etc.; grave; pressing
(Gram.) Designating or of the mood of a verb that expresses a command, strong request, or exhortation
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- (Gram.) Designating or of the mood of a verb that expresses a command, strong request, or exhortation
- Having the nature of, or indicating, power or authority; commanding
- Necessary or urgent:
Having an acute angle:
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- Having an acute angle:
- Afflicted by a disease exhibiting a rapid onset followed by a short, severe course:
- Very serious; critical; crucial
Of or relating to a climacteric.
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- Of or relating to a climacteric.
- Of or resembling a climacteric; crucial
- Critical; crucial.
Undertaken out of extreme urgency or as a last resort:
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- Undertaken out of extreme urgency or as a last resort:
- Offering so little chance, as for improvement, as to cause despair; extremely dangerous or serious
- Nearly hopeless; critical:
Calling for quick action; urgent
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- Calling for quick action; urgent
- Arousing terror or causing extreme distress; dreadful; terrible
- Warning of or having dreadful or terrible consequences; calamitous:
Serving to put an end to doubt, question, or uncertainty; decisive:
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- Serving to put an end to doubt, question, or uncertainty; decisive:
- That settles a question; final; decisive
Determining or able to determine an outcome:
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- Determining or able to determine an outcome:
Having the power or quality of deciding a question or controversy; putting an end to contest or controversy; final; conclusive.
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- Having the power or quality of deciding a question or controversy; putting an end to contest or controversy; final; conclusive.
- Settling a matter or conflict; conclusive:
- Marked by promptness and decision.
Determining (deciding) something.
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- Determining (deciding) something.
- Able or serving to determine:
- Determining or serving to determine
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