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Gripping vs Important - What's the difference?

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Gripping is a related term of important.


As adjectives the difference between gripping and important

is that gripping is catching the attention; exciting; interesting; absorbing; fascinating while important is important.

As a verb gripping

is .

As a noun gripping

is (pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines).

gripping

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Catching the attention; exciting; interesting; absorbing; fascinating.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines)
  • * 1727 , Alexander Hamilton, A new account of the East Indies
  • The same Night it began to operate by Grippings and Sweating, and he being bred a Surgeon, took some Medicines to correct the Grippings, which in some Measure the Medicine did, but he lost his Appetite

    important

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having relevant and crucial value.
  • :
  • *
  • *:Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=20 citation , passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen.
  • *1988, (Robert Ferro), Second Son :
  • *:For this was the most important thing, that when a person felt strongly about an issue in life, it mustn’t be ignored by others; for if it was, everything subsequent to it would turn out badly, even though there should seem to be no direct connection.
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Katrina G. Claw
  • , title= Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm , volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.}}

    Synonyms

    * (l) * See also

    Antonyms

    * unimportant * negligible

    Derived terms

    * importantly, importantness, unimportant, VIP