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above all adv.
essentially adv.
par excellence adv.
principally adv.

ADVERB

above all

Synonyms

WEAK

chiefly especially in particular mainly most of all mostly primarily principally supremely

Antonyms

WEAK

lastly

ADVERB

essentially

Synonyms

STRONGEST

actually approximately necessarily originally permanently quite really substantially truly typically virtually

STRONG

fundamentally

WEAK

at heart at the heart of centrally characteristically chiefly determinately factually in effect in essence indispensably inherently intimately intrinsically materially more or less so naturally primarily principally radically significantly vitally

Antonyms

STRONGEST

doubtfully

WEAK

apparently on the surface superficially

ADVERB

par excellence

Synonyms

WEAK

eminently incomparably preeminent preeminently superior superiorly supremely the most

ADVERB

principally

Synonyms

STRONGEST

basically chiefly first and foremost generally largely mostly notably particularly predominantly

STRONG

primarily

WEAK

above all before anything else cardinally dominantly eminently especially essentially first of all for the most part fundamentally in the first place in the main materially peculiarly preeminently prevailingly prevalently substantially superlatively supremely to a great degree universally vitally

Antonyms

WEAK

secondarily trivially

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Most importantly, Hyde had a strong relationship with Northeastern coach Mike Glavine, whose brother, Tom, is a Hall-of-Fame pitcher.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Most importantly, it offers all of us a choice: Is this really the future we want?

From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2026

But he is standing tall at the plate, tattooing balls at the letters, double-fisting his follow-throughs and, importantly, generally showing discernment about the strike zone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Just as importantly, the work shows that the phase space distance method could be used more broadly to search for unfamiliar particles, unusual interactions and other rare phenomena.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

And importantly, Hancock could count on winning all the southern states where the Democratic Party now dominated.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow

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