Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɪˈsɛn.ʃəl/, [əˈsɛn.tʃəl]
essential
- Necessary.
- Synonyms: indispensable, Thesaurus:requisite
- Antonyms: accidental, accessorial, incidental, unnecessary, unneeded
- Very important; of high importance.
- Synonyms: crucial, Thesaurus:important
- Antonyms: unimportant, Thesaurus:insignificant
- (biology) necessary for survival but not synthesize by the organism, thus needing to be ingested
- Being in the basic form; showing its essence.
- Synonyms: Thesaurus:intrinsic, Thesaurus:bare-bones
- Antonyms: adscititious, Thesaurus:extrinsic
- Don’t mind him being grumpy. That’s the essential Fred.
- Really existing; existent.
- Synonyms: Thesaurus:existent
- Antonyms: Thesaurus:inexistent
- (geometry) 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.
- German: essenziell, notwendig, unverzichtbar
- Portuguese: essencial
- Russian: необходи́мый
- Spanish: esencial
- French: indispensable
- German: wesentlich, unentbehrlich, unverzichtbar
- Portuguese: essencial
- Russian: ва́жный
- French: essentiel, fondamental
- Portuguese: essencial, fundamental
- Russian: основно́й
essential (plural essentials)
- A necessary ingredient.
- A fundamental ingredient.
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