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Definition of Essential
1. Adjective. Absolutely necessary; vitally necessary. "An indispensable worker"
Similar to: Necessary
Derivative terms: Essentialness, Indispensability, Indispensableness
2. Noun. Anything indispensable. "A place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained"
Generic synonyms: Thing
Specialized synonyms: Desideratum, Must, Need, Want
Antonyms: Inessential
Derivative terms: Necessary, Necessitate, Necessitous, Require, Requisite
3. Adjective. Basic and fundamental. "The essential feature"
Also: Crucial, Important, Indispensable, Unexpendable, Important, Of Import, Intrinsic, Intrinsical, Necessary, Primary
Similar to: Basal, Primary, Biogenic, Constituent, Constitutional, Constitutive, Organic, Must, No-frills, Staple, Substantial, Substantive, Virtual, Life-sustaining, Vital
Derivative terms: Essentiality, Essentialness
Antonyms: Inessential
4. Adjective. Of the greatest importance. "In chess cool nerves are of the essence"
Similar to: Important, Of Import
Derivative terms: Cruciality, Essence, Essentiality, Essentialness
5. Adjective. Being or relating to or containing the essence of a plant etc. "Essential oil"
6. Adjective. Defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established. "Substantive law"
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
Derivative terms: Essentialness
Antonyms: Adjective
Definition of Essential
1. a. Belonging to the essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is.
2. n. Existence; being.
Definition of Essential
1. Adjective. Necessary. ¹
2. Adjective. Very important; of high importance. ¹
3. Adjective. Being in the basic form; showing its essence. ¹
4. Adjective. (context: of a lamination of a 3-manifold) Such that each complementary region is irreducible, the boundary of each complementary region is incompressible by disks and monogons in the complementary region, and no leaf is a sphere or a torus bounding a solid torus in the manifold. ¹
5. Adjective. (medicine) Idiopathic. ¹
6. Noun. A necessary ingredient. ¹
7. Noun. A fundamental ingredient. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Essential
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Medical Definition of Essential
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1. Belonging to the essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is. "Majestic as the voice sometimes became, there was forever in it an essential character of plaintiveness." (Hawthorne)
2. Hence, really existing; existent. "Is it true, that thou art but a a name, And no essential thing?" (Webster (1623))
3. Important in the highest degree; indispensable to the attainment of an object; indispensably necessary. "Judgment's more essential to a general Than courage." (Denham) "How to live? that is the essential question for us." (H. Spencer)
4. Containing the essence or characteristic portion of a substance, as of a plant; highly rectified; pure; hence, unmixed; as, an essential oil. "Mine own essential horror."
5. Necessary; indispensable; said of those tones which constitute a chord, in distinction from ornamental or passing tones.
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