Important and Seminal

Important

Important adjective - Having great meaning or lasting effect.
Usage example: the discovery of penicillin was a very important event in the history of medicine

Seminal is a synonym for important in critical topic. In some cases you can use "Seminal" instead an adjective "Important", when it comes to topics like eminent, significant.

Seminal

Seminal adjective - Containing seeds of later development.
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Synonyms for Seminal

Important is a synonym for seminal in imaginative topic. You can use "Important" instead an adjective "Seminal", if it concerns topics such as influential, generative.

Nearby Word: semination

Both words in one sentence

  • Film / Bright Star Before he turned twenty-five, he was already too sick to write, but between the ages of twenty-one and twenty-four he had managed to produce literally hundreds of important poems, some of them seminal works of the Romantic Era. Lazy?
  • Jerusalem is a critically acclaimed 2009 play by Jez Butterworth, frequently hailed as the most important new play of the 21st century and a seminal classic in the making.
  • Music / Murmur The resulting album became one of the seminal releases in Jangle Pop and Alternative Indie in general.In 2009 the song "Radio Free Europe" was added to the National Recording Registry for being "historically, culturally and aesthetically important".
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