essential
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
Adjectival derivation of Latin essentia (“‘being, essence’”).
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[edit] Noun
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essential (plural essentials)
- A necessary ingredient.
- A fundamental ingredient.
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necessary ingredient
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fundamental ingredient
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[edit] Adjective
essential (comparative more essential, superlative most essential)
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- 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.
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- inessential, unessential, accidental, nonessential, unneeded, adscititious, unimportant, accessorial, unnecessary, incidental
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necessary
of high importance
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in basic form
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