Essential Meaning and Definition

Word: Essential

How to pronounce: ɪˈsenʃəl

Adjective

Definitions:

1. Absolutely necessary; extremely important.

Example sentences: "It is essential to keep up-to-date records"

2. (of a disease) with no known external stimulus or cause; idiopathic.

Example sentences: "Essential hypertension"

Noun

Definitions:

1. A thing that is absolutely necessary.

Example sentences: "We had only the bare essentials in the way of gear"

Synonyms:

necessary

imperative

required

requisite

needful

necessity

important

crucial

vital

most important

critical

relevant

necessitous

paramount

intrinsic

innate

inherent

integral

substantive

basic

fundamental

native

key

major

inalienable

inseparable

irreplaceable

needed

indispensable

mandatory

requirement

underlying

indigenous

basal

constitutive

of the essence

obligatory

compulsory

elemental

rudimentary

Derivations:

essence

essentiality

essentially

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Essential in Other Languages...

Spanish: Esencial

German: Wesentlich

French: Essentiel

Italian: Essenziale

Turkish: Temel