essential

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/ɪˈsɛn.ʃəl/ English

Definitions

noun

A necessary ingredient.
A fundamental ingredient.

adjective

Necessary.
Very important; of high importance.
Necessary for survival but not synthesized by the organism, thus needing to be ingested
Being in the basic form; showing its essence.“Don’t mind him being grumpy. That’s the essential Fred.”

Related words

Synonyms

crucial indispensable necessary requisite necessity requirement must basic important of the essence all-important primary substantial substantive basal constitutional constitutive

Antonyms

accessorial accidental incidental unnecessary unneeded adscititious inessential non-essential nonessential unessential unimportant

Associated

oils medicines fatty amino nutrients acids ingredient medication wholesale survival component element

Rhymes

consequential inconsequential potential deferential quintessential influential providential torrential tangential sequential

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