crucially
At the crux
Crucially marks something as essential or decisive to an outcome: Crucially, she remembered to save the document before the crash.
It emphasizes that what follows is the pivotal factor, the thing on which everything else depends.
The plan succeeded, crucially, because everyone committed to it.
Essential or sustaining existence
- criticalExpressing disapproval or importance
- indispensableUtterly required, irreplaceable
- necessaryIndispensable, cannot omit
- fundamentalForming the base
integral · paramount · imperative · key · central · requisite · core · foundational
Settling a matter conclusively
- decidingMaking a choice
- conclusiveEnding all debate
- definitiveSettling a question finally
- resoluteFixed in purpose
momentous · influential · clinching · settling · binding · authoritative · unequivocal · final
vital
Essential or sustaining existence
- criticalExpressing disapproval or importance
- indispensableUtterly required, irreplaceable
- necessaryIndispensable, cannot omit
fundamental · integral · paramount · imperative · key · central · requisite · core · foundational · pivotal
determinative
Settling a matter conclusively
- decidingMaking a choice
- conclusiveEnding all debate
- definitiveSettling a question finally
resolute · momentous · influential · clinching · settling · binding · authoritative · unequivocal · final · ultimate
central
In the middle, primary
- linchpinVital securing element
- cornerstoneFoundational building block
- keystoneArch's central locking stone
fulcrum · nexus · hinge · axis · hub · anchor · turning · swivel · inflection · juncture
- "To a great extent" adverbsgreatly, much, largely, vastly, considerably
cruciallyinsignificantly
In an unimportant manner
trivially · unimportantly · negligibly · inconsequentially · marginally
cruciallyincidentally
Introducing a tangent
tangentially · parenthetically · coincidentally · by the way · as an aside
- crucial junctureDecisive point of change