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单词 paramount
释义
paramount
adjective
formal
uk
/ˈpær.ə.maʊnt/us
/ˈper.ə.maʊnt/
C2
moreimportantthan anythingelse:
至上的，首要的
There are manypriorities, butreducingthebudgetdeficitis paramount/isofparamountimportance.很多事情要优先解决，但当务之急是减少预算赤字。
Synonyms
overriding
preponderantformal
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Very important or urgent
  • all-important
  • at all cost(s)idiom
  • be a matter of life and/or deathidiom
  • chief
  • clutch
  • co-principal
  • life-and-death
  • life-changing
  • mainly
  • major league
  • make the world go around/roundidiom
  • meaningful
  • pressing
  • prominent
  • radical
  • revalorization
  • revalorize
  • sacred
  • salient
  • subtle
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(Definition ofparamountfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

paramount| American Dictionary

paramount
adjective[not gradable]
us
/ˈpær·əˌmɑʊnt/
moreimportantthan anythingelse:
Everybodyagreesthateducationis the paramountissue.
(Definition ofparamountfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofparamount

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