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high-priority

ADJECTIVE
critical
Synonyms
STRONGEST
crucial dangerous decisive dire integral perilous pivotal precarious risky serious significant strategic urgent vital
WEAK
acute all-important bottom-line climacteric conclusive consequential deciding desperate determinative exceptive grave hairy hazardous momentous pressing weighty
Antonyms
STRONGEST
certain inessential minor safe secure sure trivial unimportant unnecessary
WEAK
complimentary laudatory praising uncritical
ADJECTIVE
crucial
Synonyms
STRONGEST
bottom-line central compelling deciding decisive essential imperative momentous necessary pivotal pressing touchy urgent vital
WEAK
acute clamorous climactic desperate dire hanging by thread insistent on thin ice searching showdown touch and go
Antonyms
STRONGEST
inessential insignificant minor optional secondary trivial unimportant unnecessary voluntary
WEAK
uncritical
ADJECTIVE
pressing
Synonyms
STRONGEST
acute compelling critical crucial demanding dire immediate imperative insistent serious vital
STRONG
burning claiming constraining crying distressing exacting forcing instant obliging requiring
WEAK
clamant clamorous exigent heat-on hurry-up importunate life-and-death
Antonyms
STRONGEST
dull inessential optional trivial uncritical unimportant
WEAK
insignificant

Example Sentences

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An Interior Department spokesperson said the agency was “advancing high-priority improvements” across the system.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2026

“The high-priority applications usually get 100%, or close to 100%, of their historical requirements.”

From Salon • Mar. 30, 2026

China has committed an estimated $15 billion to quantum research, with its new Five-Year Plan listing quantum among high-priority future industries.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

“The transaction expands Karman’s footprint into the high-priority maritime defense market, providing exposure to long-cycle naval programs with strong funding visibility.”

From Barron's • Jan. 22, 2026

The hospital was a high-priority location, so it got the first water deliveries, and county jail, being a government facility, never had its water shut off like all the municipal water districts had.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman