Synonym: distinguished, famous, great, high, important, noble, outstanding, prominent, superior. Antonym: nameless, unknown. Similar words: preeminently, eminent domain, eminence, imminent, prominent, continent, incontinent, subcontinent. Meaning: ['emɪnənt] adj. 1. (used of persons) standing above others in character or attainment or reputation 2. standing above others in quality or position 3. having achieved eminence 4. of imposing height; especially standing out above others.
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91. This theory could help explain why eminent artists throughout history, from composer Robert Schumann to poet Sylvia Plath to Wallace -- suffered mood disorders. Learn more about mood disorders ?
92. The Arab League could yet appoint a group of eminent independent Arabs to listen to all sides in the Syrian crisis and seek a "new Taif".
93. And one way to think about pitcher plants is as a modest-scale island, " said Robert Holt, an eminent University of Florida ecologist who's tracked the pitcher plant work.
94. The eminent writers duly propose a huge (nay, hundredfold) boost in funding to help the poor cope with a shifting climate—through drought-resistant crops, for example.
95. Worthy of admiration, therefore, is the attitude of the eminent Maliki scholar Abu Bakr ibn Al-'Arabi when he explained the above verse in his book Ahkam Al-Qur'an.
96. When I was about six years old, my father heard of an eminent oculist in Baltimore, who had been successful in many cases that had seemed hopeless.
97. Increasingly, abortion is recognized as a pre - eminent issue for feminists.
98. As we all know, Plotinus is one of the eminent philosophers during the transitional period between the ancient Greece and the Middle Ages.
99. He would have been pre - eminent in field work.
100. He is eminent both as a sculptor as a portrait painter.
101. What did the most eminent Bellarmine tell him about the said decision?
102. Photograph by Fritz Hoffmann – "Gained merit in battle" reads the epitaph of two of the 231 eminent Shaolin monks honored with shrines in the Pagoda Forest.
103. Let us have a look at New Jersey's pre - eminent University Town.
104. He's the head of an eminent financial group and an expert on the Genome theory.
105. He and I went up to London. He had the advice of an eminent oculist; and he eventually recovered the sight of that one eye.
106. Since eminent domain prevails the exclusivism of property right,(http://sentencedict.com/eminent.html) the transaction rule in the market is hardly plausible to assess the fairness of the compensation.
107. An eminent aeronautical engineer's perspective on the history of engineering.
108. In the situation of market economy, the authority equals neither the position nor the special privilege. It is the control power, the eminent domain and the usufruct of certain resources.
109. How can you expect people to get worked up over this if they don't care about eavesdropping or eminent domain?
110. Surely an eminent man of science such as Alfred Nobel could not simply have forgotten about mathematics, so he must have had a good reason for omitting it.
111. The pre - eminent translator of the Spanish language has never been to Spain.
112. The writer briefly analyzes the active influence and historical meaning of land eminent domain to social development after the foundation of PRC.
113. It was a huge class, a survey course on architecture and linguistics (yes, we did such things), taught by an eminent Professor.
114. Willard Van Orman Quine was an eminent philosopher transforming the analytic philosophy with the holistic empirism of pragmatism in the contemporary United States.
115. The amulet she is wearing has been blessed by eminent monks.
116. At Martin's home Bethune and Frances met other eminent doctors and socialites.
117. An eminent musicologist, mathematician and calendarist, who was honored to be "oriental personage of artistic encyclopedia type".
118. An eminent anthropologist , Fred Gelman investigated the remnants of ancient structures.
119. John Lautner, one of the most eminent Googie architects, built the Chemosphere in Los Angeles to show how it was possible to erect a home in an otherwise uninhabitable slope off Mulholland Drive.
120. The eminent French literary historian Pierre Vidal-Naquet has denounced the revisionists as assassins de la memoire.
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