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Important vs Fundament - What's the difference?

important | fundament |

As an adjective important

is important.

As a noun fundament is

foundation.

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

    fundament

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Foundation.
  • The bottom; the buttocks or anus.
  • * 1703 , Thomas Gibson, The anatomy of humane bodies epitomized :
  • It [the Sphincter Ani] serves to purse up the Fundament , and so hinders the involuntary Evacuation of the Fæces.
  • * 1861 , Aristotle (pseud.), Aristotle's Works: containing directions for midwives, and counsel and advice to child-bearing women with various useful remedies. , page 119
  • ANOTHER defect that new-born infants are liable to is, to have their fundaments closed up; by which they can never evacuate the new excrements engendered by the milk they suck...
  • * 1864 , Alfred Fennings, Fennings' everybody's doctor; or, When ill, how to get well , page 9
  • Bathe the parts frequently with cold water, and, if there be much pain at stool, always squirt up the fundament , beforehand, with a syringe, half a teacupful of cold water.
  • * 2008 , Eric Summers , Ride Me Cowboy: Erotic Tales of the West , page 38[http://books.google.com/books?id=0BVYlikE-bgC&pg=PA38&dq=fundament]:
  • I flinched when he touched my rosebud, but pretty soon I was fucking his mouth like it was Hector's fundament .
  • The underlying basis or principle for a theoretical or mathematical system.