Important vs Noteworthy - What's the difference?
important | noteworthy |
Having relevant and crucial value.
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*: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.
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, chapter=20 *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.
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, title= Deserving attention; notable; worthy of notice.
* 2014 , Daniel Taylor, England and Wayne Rooney see off Scotland in their own back yard'' (in ''The Guardian , 18 November 2014)[http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/nov/18/scotland-england-international-friendly-match-report]
A noteworthy person.
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=2009-08-19, author=Phoebe Eaton, title=Charles Finch: The Cannes-Do Guy, work=New York Times
, passage=One of the French Riviera’s most reliable characters is Charles Finch, a month-of-May migrant worker who jets in for the Cannes Film Festival, bunking up at the stately Hôtel du Cap with the show folk and other noteworthies who come primed to toast their outrageous fortune here with $40 Bellinis. }}
As adjectives the difference between important and noteworthy
is that important is having relevant and crucial value while noteworthy is deserving attention; notable; worthy of notice.As a noun noteworthy is
a noteworthy person.important
English
Adjective
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Synonyms
* (l) * See alsoAntonyms
* unimportant * negligibleDerived terms
* importantly, importantness, unimportant, VIPnoteworthy
English
Adjective
(er)- Zukertort represent the other most noteworthy tournaments.
- Yet Hodgson’s men played with wonderful control. Their young full-backs, Luke Shaw and Nathaniel Clyne, epitomised their composure and Fraser Forster had to make only one noteworthy save before Andy Robertson’s goal, seven minutes from the end of time, temporarily threatened a winning position.
Noun
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