Definitions for essential
əˈsɛn ʃəles·sen·tial

Princeton's WordNet(3.45 / 9 votes)Rate this definition:

1. necessity, essential, requirement, requisite, necessaryadjective

   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. essential, indispensableadjective

   absolutely necessary; vitally necessary

   "essential tools and materials"; "funds essential to the completion of the project"; "an indispensable worker"

3. essentialadjective

   basic and fundamental

   "the essential feature"

4. all-important(a), all important(p), crucial, essential, of the essence(p)adjective

   of the greatest importance

   "the all-important subject of disarmament"; "crucial information"; "in chess cool nerves are of the essence"

5. essentialadjective

   being or relating to or containing the essence of a plant etc

   "essential oil"

6. substantive, essentialadjective

   defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established

   "substantive law"

Wiktionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. essentialnoun

   A necessary ingredient.

   Etymology: From essentialis, from essentia.

2. essentialnoun

   A fundamental ingredient.

   Etymology: From essentialis, from essentia.

3. essentialadjective

   Idiopathic.

   Etymology: From essentialis, from essentia.

4. essentialadjective

   Necessary.

   Etymology: From essentialis, from essentia.

5. essentialadjective

   Very important; of high importance.

   Etymology: From essentialis, from essentia.

6. essentialadjective

   Being in the basic form; showing its essence.

   Don't mind him being grumpy. That's the essential Fred.

   Etymology: From essentialis, from essentia.

7. essentialadjective

   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.

   Etymology: From essentialis, from essentia.

Webster Dictionary(4.67 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Essentialadjective

   belonging to the essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is

   Etymology: [Cf. F. essentiel. See Essence.]

2. Essentialadjective

   hence, really existing; existent

   Etymology: [Cf. F. essentiel. See Essence.]

3. Essentialadjective

   important in the highest degree; indispensable to the attainment of an object; indispensably necessary

   Etymology: [Cf. F. essentiel. See Essence.]

4. Essentialadjective

   containing the essence or characteristic portion of a substance, as of a plant; highly rectified; pure; hence, unmixed; as, an essential oil

   Etymology: [Cf. F. essentiel. See Essence.]

5. Essentialadjective

   necessary; indispensable; -- said of those tones which constitute a chord, in distinction from ornamental or passing tones

   Etymology: [Cf. F. essentiel. See Essence.]

6. Essentialadjective

   idiopathic; independent of other diseases

   Etymology: [Cf. F. essentiel. See Essence.]

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1. Essential

   Essential is a 1991 collection of hits by The Divinyls.

Editors Contribution(3.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. essential

   A fundamental form.

   The fundamental form of the system was created first and then the others mapped their systems into the whole.

   Submitted by MaryC on January 26, 2020  

2. Essential

   A natural form.

   Wind is an essential form of the weather necessary to dry land, distribute seeds etc.

   Submitted by MaryC on January 26, 2020  

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British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'essential' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1147

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'essential' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2350

3. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'essential' in Adjectives Frequency: #142

How to pronounce essential?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of essential in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of essential in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of essential in a Sentence

1. Pramila Jayapal:

   The minimum wage remains essential policy and we must deliver on this issue.

2. Bruce Henderson:

   The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior. Ordinarily, this means that any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate that all other competitors are at a distinct disadvantage.

3. Hillary Clinton:

   For more than a century, Planned Parenthood has provided essential services for women, and I think it is unfortunate that Planned Parenthood had been the object of such a concerted attacks for so many years. It's really is an attack against a women's right to choose to make the most personal, difficult decisions that any woman would face based on her faith and the medical advice that she is given.

4. Thomas De Quincey:

   Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone all leave it alone.

5. Toby Norman:

   Getting patient application right is absolutely essential, at Simprints we do three things to get that right. First we don't work with patient medical records, so we never store or hold access to patient data. That's all held by the organizations we work with. Second we never transmit raw fingerprint images, so we actually do the extraction process where we take a fingerprint image and turn it into a template. We do that on the scanner itself, meaning that the fingerprint image never leaves the scanner. Third we use the same level of encryptions that we use in online banking or financial transactions that secure any data that passes between the phone and the server.

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