paramount
Syllables: par·a·mount/ˈpæɹəmaʊnt//ˈpæɹəˌmaʊnt/
paramount adjective: highest, supreme; also, chief, leading, pre-eminent.
Adjective
paramount (not comparable)
- Highest, supreme; also, chief, leading, pre-eminent.
- […]a Traitor Paramount;1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret...
- Hitherto she had chiefly dwelt on her unkindness and neglect; but absence, like charity, covers a multitude of sins; and the thought now paramount was, that she should see her no more.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 168
- Of the highest importance.
- Getting those credit cards paid off is paramount.
- Synonyms:
- crucial, imperative, big, central, consequential, critical, epochful, essential, extraordinary, fateful
- Antonyms:
- base, contemptible, floccinaucinihilipilificatious, foolish, for the birds, futile, frivolous, idle, ignorable, immaterial
- Of a law, right, etc.: having precedence over or superior to another.
Noun
paramount (plural paramounts)
- A chief or superior; (specifically, chiefly South Africa) an African chief having the highest status in a region; a paramount chief.
- A supreme ruler; an overlord; (specifically, historical) in the feudal system, a landowner who did not derive ownership of the land from anyone else, and who was able to grant fees to others; a lord paramount.
Proper noun capitalized: Paramount
Paramount
paramount meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
paramount in Hindi
- highest, supreme — see also supreme
- सर्वोच्च sarvocc, सर्वोपरि sarvopri
- of the highest importance
- सर्वोच्च sarvocc
paramount in Tamil
- எல்லாவற்றிலும் மேலாக, தலையாய, மிகச்சிறந்த, முக்கியமான, உயர்தனியான, முதன்மையான
paramount in Urdu
- فائق, غالب
paramount in Bengali
- সর্বোচ্চ, মহীয়ান, প্রধান, অগ্রগামী, অগ্রগণ্য, সর্বোচ্চ গুরুত্বপূর্ণ
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- paramount in Malayalam
- പരമമായ, പ്രബലമായ, സർവ്വശ്രേഷ്ഠമായ
- paramount in Kannada
- ಸರ್ವೋತ್ಕೃಷ್ಟ, ಉಚ್ಚತಮ, ಸರ್ವಶ್ರೇಷ್ಠ, ಪರಮ
- paramount in Gujarati
- સર્વોચ્ચ sarvocc
- paramount in Pashto
- عالي aeli, پارا مائونټ
- paramount in Arabic
- أعلى فائق 'aelaa fayiq, أساسي 'asasiun
Examples of paramount in a sentence
- Paramount Pictures has set Jennifer Love Hewitt for a movie called Two Can Play This Game.
- In a fall, the correct ropeline along the body is paramount for avoiding injuries.
- The storage of cryptographic secrets is one of the paramount requirements in building trustworthy systems.
Synonyms of paramount
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Antonyms
10 more antonymsFewer antonyms
- inconsequential
- inconsiderable
- indifferent
- insignificant
- like a fart in a windstorm
- meager
- mean
- minor
- miserable
- negligible
Forms of paramount
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Origin of paramount
PIE word *h₂éd From Anglo-Norman paramont /paramount (“paramount, pre-eminent; above”), from Old French par /per (“by”) + amont /amunt (“upward”). Par is derived from Latin per (“by means of, through”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to go through; to carry forth, fare”); amont and amunt are from Latin ad montem (“to the mountain; upward”), from ad (“up to”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd (“at; to”)) + montem (the accusative singular of mōns (“mount, mountain”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to stand out, tower”)).
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Questions about paramount
- What does paramount mean?
- Paramount means highest, supreme; also, chief, leading, pre-eminent.
- What is paramount in Hindi?
- Paramount in Hindi is सर्वोच्च (sarvocc), सर्वोपरि (sarvopri). See Paramount meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is paramount?
- Paramount can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce paramount?
- Paramount is pronounced /ˈpæɹəmaʊnt/ (UK).
Words near paramount in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: paramount (page history and authors); Paramount (page history and authors); paramount (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); paramount (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); paramount (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); paramount (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); paramount (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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