paramount

adjective · nounB2

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Tính từ

adjective
  1. 1.

    (not comparable, often, postpositional)(often postpositive) Highest, supreme; also, chief, leading, pre-eminent.

    Đồng nghĩa: utmost

  2. 2.

    (not comparable)Of the highest importance.

    Getting those credit cards paid off is paramount.

    Đồng nghĩa: crucial, imperative, big, central, consequential, critical, crucial, epochful, essential, extraordinary, fateful, fatefraught, fatesome, heavy, pivotal, high on the totem pole, historic, innegligible, key, life-or-death, meaningful, necessary, noted, noticeable, observable, outstanding, paramount, pertinent, relevant, remarkable, salient, significant, unignorable, valuable, vital, weighty

  3. 3.

    (not comparable, obsolete)Of a law, right, etc.: having precedence over or superior to another.

    Đồng nghĩa: crowning, ferior, foremost, greater, higher, major, paramount, preeminent, superior, supreme, utmost, vaulting

Danh từ

noun
Plural noun:
paramounts
  1. 1.

    A chief or superior; (specifically, chiefly South Africa) an African chief having the highest status in a region; a paramount chief.

  2. 2.

    (obsolete)A supreme ruler; an overlord; (specifically, historical) in the feudal system, a landowner who did not derive ownership of the land from anyone else, and who was able to grant fees to others; a lord paramount.

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Đồng nghĩa

utmostcrucialimperativebigcentralconsequentialcriticalepochfulessentialextraordinaryfatefulfatefraughtfatesomeheavypivotalhigh on the totem polehistoricinnegligiblekeylife-or-death

Trái nghĩa

paravailbasecontemptiblefloccinaucinihilipilificatiousfoolishfor the birdsfutilefrivolousidleignorableimmaterialinconsequential

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Nguồn gốc từ

h₂édine-pro From paramont//paramount (paramount, pre-eminent; above), from Old French par//per (by) + amont//amunt (upward). Par is derived from Latin per (by means of, through), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (to go through; to carry forth, fare); amont and amunt are from Latin ad montem (to the mountain; upward), from ad (up to) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd (at;

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