In the sign for "important" your hands start in front of your belly and arc up and out to the sides then
come together in front of your chest:
IMPORTANT:
:![](../../signjpegs/i/import1.jpg)
The handshape is a sideways (palm-in) "F"-hand
![](../../signjpegs/f/f.jpg)
IMPORTANT:
![](../../signjpegs/i/import2.jpg)
![](../../signjpegs/i/import3.jpg)
![](../../signjpegs/i/import4.jpg)
Animation: IMPORTANT
![](../../gifs-animated/important.gif)
Note:
The sign for "important" can also mean "worthy."
Note:
If you omit the first part of the sign (the big arcing movement) and
just do the very last part of the sign (where the "F" hands come
together) using a double movement this sign can mean "worth" (as in
"the cost of or value of something."
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