Adjective

(en adjective)

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.

*{{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.}}

Adjective

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(rare) Undeniably]] important; which cannot be [[play down, played down or ignored.

* {{quote-book, year=1923, title=Official Monthly Bulletin, author=Interstate Cotton Seed Crushers' Association

, passage=If ever there was an example of sheer pluck and undownable determination it is right here

* {{quote-book, year=1930, title=Parachute, author=Charles J. V. Murphy

, passage=There is the undownable legend that

* {{quote-book, year=1998, title=Sinless, Sickless, Deathless Life, author=Frank N. Riale

, passage=

(rare, neologism) Invincible]]; which cannot be [[bring down, brought down or overcome.

* {{quote-newsgroup, year=1998, title=Why are our ASMs smaller than theirs?, newsgroup=sci.military.naval, author=Andrew Pavacic citation

, passage=The SR-71 is claimed to be undownable by virtue of its altitude and speed.}}

* {{quote-newsgroup, year=1998, title=A Challenge to Lazzwaldo AKA anonym or whatever it is, author=Edmond Wollmann, newsgroup=sci.skeptic citation

, passage=

* {{quote-newsgroup, year=1999, title=Taiwan is NOT able to defeat any invasion, author=kinara, newsgroup=soc.culture.china citation

, passage= I did not go as far as that either. I only went as far as stating that an American warplane is almost undownable and an American warship is unsinkable.}}