paramount

[ParĀ·a*mount]

To the President, protecting our nation's security is of paramount importance it's at the very top of his to do list.

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Having the highest rank or jurisdiction; superior to all others; chief; supreme; pre'89minent; as, a paramount duty.

Adjective S.
having superior power and influence; "the predominant mood among policy-makers is optimism"


a.
Having the highest rank or jurisdiction; superior to all others; chief; supreme; preeminent; as, a paramount duty.

n.
The highest or chief.


Paramount

Par"a*mount , a. [OF. par amont above; par through, by (L. per) + amont above. See Amount.] Having the highest rank or jurisdiction; superior to all others; chief; supreme; pre'89minent; as, a paramount duty. "A traitor paramount." Bacon. Lady paramount (Archery), the lady making the best score. -- Lord paramount, the king. Syn. Superior; principal; pre'89minent; chief.

Paramount

Par"a*mount, n. The highest or chief. Milton.

Having the highest rank or jurisdiction; superior to all others; chief; supreme; pre'89minent; as, a paramount duty.

The highest or chief.

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Usage Examples

Beauty, of course, is the most important requirement and the paramount asset of the applicant.

Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Accuracy is paramount in every detail of a work of history. Here's my rule: Ask yourself, 'Did this thing happen?' If the answer is yes, then it's historical. Then ask, 'Did this thing happen precisely this way?' If the answer is yes, then it's history if the answer is no, not precisely this way, then it's historical drama.

Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance of one's children is paramount.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

Nixon was an awful president in many ways, including in some of his foreign-policy choices. But he left no doubt that foreign policy and America's leadership in the world outside its borders was of paramount importance to him.

History has shown that one cannot legislate a culture of integrity. And yet, one of the paramount responsibilities and challenges of corporate leadership is to ensure such a culture.

I understand the damage the expenses crisis has done to Parliament, and the paramount importance of restoring trust in our politics.

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