Cause and Importance

Opposite meaning words

Cause noun - Someone or something responsible for a result.

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Importance is an antonym for cause.

Nearby Words: caused, causation, causeless, causative, causal

Importance noun - The quality or state of being important.

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Cause is an antonym for importance in significance topic.

good	good cause	good importance
particular	particular cause	particular importance
specific	specific cause	specific importance
true	true cause	true importance
Other adjectives: obvious, actual, real, great, huge, little, main, key, new, major, political, apparent, less, greater, larger, higher.

Struggling in a panic may actually cause you to drag yourself down instead of up, and survival guides stress the importance of staying still if this starts to happen.

Source: Quicksand Sucks
Also very important, as her death was the cause of one of the plot's major themes, the importance of love.

Source: Characters / Disgaea Novels
Events of importance often cause divergent 'tributaries' to branch off the main timestream.

Source: Comicbook / The Kingdom (DC)

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