JJIMP Adjectives of importance

Definition

Adjectives expressing importance or significance.

Detection Rules

xiao_2009

Requires: usas

USAS code: A11

usas

cql[lemma={words} & pos="JJ|JJR|JJS"]
Word list (130 items)
accentuated acute acuter acutest all-important all-star bare-faced black-tie blatant bread-and-butter cardinal celebrated central climactic conspicuous core crucial decisive devalued discernable discernible distinctive earth-shattering elevated emergency emphasised evident expendable eye-catching eye-grabbing eyecatching faint fateful focal foremost fundamental geared glaring ground-breaking groundbreaking high-profile high-ranking iconic immaterial imperative important incidental inconsequential indispensable indistinct insidious insignificant instrumental integral irrespective key keynote low-key low-profile lower-profile main major manifest marginal marked meaningful meaningless mentionless mere minor momentous monumental newsworthy non-essential non-mattering non-negligible non-obvious notable noted noteworthy obvious outweighed outweighing overrated overriding palpable paramount patent peripheral petty piercing pivotal premier pressing prevailing primary prime principal prominent pronounced rhetorical salient secondary semi-central seminal serious signal significant small-time staple star starring striking subsidiary substantive subtle tangible trivial underlooked underpinning unheard unimportant unmissable upgraded urgent valued vital vociferous weightier weighty

Requires: lemma, pos

Normalization

Per words

Sources

  • xiao_2009 — Xiao, Richard (2009) : Multidimensional analysis and the study of world Englishes
  • usas — Rayson, Paul; Archer, Dawn; Piao, Scott; McEnery, Tony (2004) : The UCREL Semantic Analysis System