Essential

//ɪˈsɛn.ʃəl//

Definitions

1
Necessary.
There’s canker at the root, your seed Denies the blessing of the sun, The light essential to your need. Your hopes are murdered and undone.
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indispensable essential indispensable
2
Very important; of high importance.
In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. Essential public services are cut so that the rich may pay less tax. […]
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crucial big
3
Necessary for survival but not synthesized by the organism, thus needing to be ingested.

Word Origin

From Late Latin essentiālis, from Latin essentia (“being, essence”).

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//ɪˈsɛn.ʃəl//

1
Necessary.
There’s canker at the root, your seed Denies the blessing of the sun, The light essential to your need. Your hopes are murdered and undone.
Similar
indispensable essential indispensable
2
Very important; of high importance.
In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. Essential public services are cut so that the rich may pay less tax. […]
Similar
crucial big
3
Necessary for survival but not synthesized by the organism, thus needing to be ingested.

Word Origin

From Late Latin essentiālis, from Latin essentia (“being, essence”).

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Opposite

central

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2

A fundamental ingredient.