most importantly

1. 1.

   above and beyond all other consideration

   “above all, you must be independent”

   Synonymsabove allmost especially

Questions about most importantly

What does most importantly mean?

most importantly means "above and beyond all other consideration".

What is another word for most importantly?

Close synonyms include above all, most especially. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is most importantly a common word?

most importantly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.