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Important vs Noteworthy - What's the difference?

important | noteworthy |

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

(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

    noteworthy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Deserving attention; notable; worthy of notice.
  • Zukertort represent the other most noteworthy tournaments.
  • * 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]
  • 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

    (noteworthies)
  • 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 citation
  • , 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. }}