| Definitions of 'Essential' |
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1. (adj) necessity, essential, requirement, requisite, necessary
anything indispensable
"food and shelter are necessities of life"; "the essentials of the good life"; "allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions"; "a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained"
2. (adj) essential, indispensable
absolutely necessary; vitally necessary
"essential tools and materials"; "funds essential to the completion of the project"; "an indispensable worker"
3. (adj) essential
basic and fundamental
"the essential feature"
4. (adj) all-important(a), all important(p), crucial, essential, of the essence(p)
of the greatest importance
"the all-important subject of disarmament"; "crucial information"; "in chess cool nerves are of the essence"
5. (adj) essential
being or relating to or containing the essence of a plant etc
"essential oil"
6. (adj) substantive, essential
defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established
"substantive law"
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| Definitions of 'Essential' |
Webster 1913 Dictionary |
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1. (adj) Essential
belonging to the essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is
2. (adj) Essential
hence, really existing; existent
3. (adj) Essential
important in the highest degree; indispensable to the attainment of an object; indispensably necessary
4. (adj) Essential
containing the essence or characteristic portion of a substance, as of a plant; highly rectified; pure; hence, unmixed; as, an essential oil
5. (adj) Essential
necessary; indispensable; -- said of those tones which constitute a chord, in distinction from ornamental or passing tones
6. (adj) Essential
idiopathic; independent of other diseases
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