Difference between Important and Pivotal

IMPORTANT vs PIVOTAL: ADJECTIVE

Having or suggesting a consciousness of high position
Having authority or ascendancy or influence
Important in effect or meaning
Of extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis
Strongly affecting the course of events or the nature of things; significant.
Having high social rank or influence; prominent.
Importunate.
Full of, or burdened by, import; charged with great interests; restless; anxious.
Of great significance or value
Bearing on; forcible; driving.
Importunate; pressing; urgent.
Having relevant and crucial value.
Carrying or possessing weight or consequence; of valuable content or bearing; significant; weighty.

Being of crucial importance
Of, relating to, or serving as a pivot.
Being of vital or central importance; crucial.
Of or pertaining to a pivot or turning point; belonging to, or constituting, a pivot; of the nature of a pivot
Of, relating to, or being a pivot
Being of crucial importance; central, key

Vital to the resolution of a crisis
Of extreme importance
Of much import; bearing weight or consequence; momentous; grave; significant.
Consequential; pretentious; pompous: as, an important manner.
[Appar. confused with importunate. Cf. importunate, 1.] Importunate; eager; pressing.

Of the nature of or forming a pivot; belonging to or constituting a pivot, or that upon which something turns or depends: as, a pivotal question; a pivotal State in an election.

Decisive, Remarkable, Great, Influential, Momentous, Significant, Noteworthy, Fundamental, Useful, Pivotal, Valuable, Key, Critical, Essential, Crucial

Indispensable, Major, Instrumental, Significant, Defining, Seminal, Momentous, Integral, Critical, Vital, Decisive, Key, Polar, Important, Crucial

Decisive, Remarkable, Great, Influential, Momentous, Significant, Noteworthy, Fundamental, Useful, Pivotal, Valuable, Key, Critical, Essential, Crucial

Indispensable, Major, Instrumental, Significant, Defining, Seminal, Momentous, Integral, Critical, Vital, Decisive, Key, Polar, Important, Crucial

It is also important that we hear MPs.
Africa play an important role in human diseases.
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Use emphasis sparingly, for your most important info.
All very important factors again in analyzing precedent.
It is important that procedures are followed, but it is also important that it can be shown and proved that procedures were followed.
It is important to look at your objectives for your retirement years to determine if it is important to protect your assets.
The President is important to the extent that the federal government is important.
Students illustrate an important event in the book and then explain in writing what took place and why it was important.
Building regulations have an important role to play, but we should not forget the important role of planning.