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Scarf desk Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

Scales of importance

Hi there,

I'm trying to make a list of 10 words to describe importance, in a scale from not important to critically important. I would appreciate your advice whether I have them in the right scale or not, from least important to most important. I'm especially interested in words that can be used in two ways - <word> importance, or <word variation> important.

For example, "No" would be: "No Importance" and "Not important"

The words I have so far, going from least importance to most:

no - not

marginal - marginally

minor - minorly?

small - smally?

moderate - moderately

significant - significantly

large - largely

great - greatly

dominant - dominantly

critical - critically


I'm fairly happy with this list, except "small" and "minor" don't work very well when you go to "important", and I'm not 100% sure each word is in the right place. What would be good replacements for those?

  

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Here are some adjectives that work OK with "importance" no negligible / insignificant minimal / little marginal / minor modest some moderate considerable significant high great immense critical

  • Here are some adjectives that work OK with "importance" no negligible / insignificant minimal / little marginal / minor modest some moderate considerable significant high great immense critical
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Here are some adjectives that work OK with "importance"

  • no
  • negligible / insignificant
  • minimal / little
  • marginal / minor
  • modest
  • some
  • moderate
  • considerable
  • significant
  • high
  • great
  • immense
  • critical

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