essential

essential
adjective
adjective: essential
  1. 1.
    absolutely necessary; extremely important.
    „it is essential to keep up-to-date records“
    synonyms: crucial, necessary, key, vital, indispensable, needed, required, called for, requisite, important, all-important, vitally important, of the utmost importance, of great consequence, of the essence, critical, life-and-death, imperative, mandatory, compulsory, obligatory, compelling, urgent, pressing, burning, acute, paramount, pre-eminent, high-priority, significant, consequential

    „it is essential to remove all the old plaster“
    antonyms: inessential, unimportant, optional
    • fundamental or central to the nature of something or someone.
      „the essential weakness of the plaintiff’s case“
      synonyms: basic, inherent, fundamental, quintessential, intrinsic, underlying, characteristic, innate, rudimentary, primary, principal, cardinal, chief, elementary, elemental; More
  2. 2.
    (of an amino acid or fatty acid) required for normal growth but not synthesized in the body and therefore necessary in the diet.
  3. 3.
    MEDICINE
    (of a disease) with no known external stimulus or cause; idiopathic.
    „essential hypertension“
noun
noun: essential; plural noun: essentials
  1. 1.
    a thing that is absolutely necessary.
    „we only had the bare essentials in the way of equipment“
    synonyms: necessity, necessary/essential item, prerequisite, requisite, requirement, need; More
    antonyms: inessential
    • the fundamental elements or characteristics of something.
      „he was quick to grasp the essentials of an opponent’s argument“
      synonyms: fundamentals, basics, rudiments, principles, first principles, foundations, preliminaries, groundwork; More
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