Chief
Chief adjective - Coming before all others in importance.
Usage example: our chief priority this year will be cutting the budget
Paramount is a synonym for chief in main topic. In some cases you can use "Paramount" instead an adjective "Chief", when it comes to topics like important, essential, primary. popular alternative
Nearby Word: chiefly
Paramount
Paramount adjective - Coming before all others in importance.
Usage example: the paramount goal is to restore the colonial-era house with complete historical accuracy
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- Later, when Paramount script writers had abruptly put an end to the Bashir and Garak subplots, Doctor Bashir and Chief O'Brien spent so much time together on various projects and on hobby activities that O'Brien's wife Keiko complained about it.
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She is also Paramount Chief of Fiji, though no longer the head of state there.
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