Desperate
Desperate adjective - Feeling or showing no hope.
Important and desperate are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Important" instead an adjective "Desperate".
Nearby Words: desperately, desperation
Both words in one sentence
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When his parents were coming to the House, Alfie was desperate to make them think he was smart and important, even pretending to be the nonexistent "head of house".
Source: "Well Done, Son!" Guy -
Several seconds of desperate twitching later, this was snottily amended to everything important in the universe.
Source: Hard on Soft Science - With the entire country desperate to copy, and catch up to, the more advanced West, it became important once again to define what being "Japanese" meant.
Source: Analysis / Japanese Spirit
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