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adj
Highest, supreme; also, chief, leading, pre-eminent.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, often, postpositional
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: utmost
Antonyms: paravail
adj
Of the highest importance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Synonyms: crucial, imperative, big, central, consequential, critical, 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
Antonyms: base, contemptible, floccinaucinihilipilificatious, foolish, for the birds, futile, frivolous, idle, ignorable, immaterial, inconsequential, inconsiderable, indifferent, insignificant, like a fart in a windstorm, meager, mean, minor, miserable, negligible, nothingburger, nondescript, null, paltry, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, piddly, pissant, pissass, piteous, pitiful, pointless, silly, simple, slight, ticky-tacky, tin-pot, trifling, trivial, two-bit, unimportant, unweighty, vain, worthless, wretched
adj
Of a law, right, etc.: having precedence over or superior to another.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, obsolete
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Synonyms: crowning, ferior, foremost, greater, higher, major, paramount, preeminent, superior, supreme, utmost, vaulting
Antonyms: none provided
name
A city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A chief or superior; (specifically, chiefly South Africa) an African chief having the highest status in a region; a paramount chief.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
having superior power and influence
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: overriding, predominant, predominate, preponderant, preponderating
Antonyms: none provided
History
PIE word *h2éd From Anglo-Norman 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; to”)) + montem (the accusative singular of mōns (“mount, mountain”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to stand out, tower”)).
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