essential
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Late Latin essentialis, from Latin essentia (“being, essence”).
Pronunciation [edit]
Adjective [edit]
essential (comparative more essential, superlative most essential)
- Necessary.
- Very important; of high importance.
- Being in the basic form; showing its essence.
- Don’t mind him being grumpy. That’s the essential Fred.
- (of a lamination of a 3-manifold) 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.
- (medicine) Idiopathic.
Synonyms [edit]
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- indispensable, crucial, substantive
- See also Wikisaurus:requisite
Antonyms [edit]
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- inessential, unessential, accidental, nonessential, unneeded, adscititious, unimportant, accessorial, unnecessary, incidental
Derived terms [edit]
terms derived from essential (adjective)
Translations [edit]
necessary
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of high importance
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in basic form
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Noun [edit]
essential (plural essentials)
- A necessary ingredient.
- A fundamental ingredient.
Translations [edit]
necessary ingredient
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fundamental ingredient
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Latin [edit]
Noun [edit]
essentiāl (genitive essentiālis); n, third declension
- essentials (essential qualities)