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ESSENTIAL

Definition:

1. [noun] anything indispensable; "food and shelter are necessities of life"; "the essentials of the good life"; "allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions"; "a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained"
   Synonyms: necessity, requirement, requisite, necessary
   
   
2. [adjective] absolutely necessary; vitally necessary; "essential tools and materials"; "funds essential to the completion of the project"; "an indispensable worker"
   Synonyms: indispensable
   
   
3. [adjective] basic and fundamental; "the essential feature"
   
   
4. [adjective] of the greatest importance; "the all-important subject of disarmament"; "crucial information"; "in chess cool nerves are of the essence"
   Synonyms: all-important, all important, crucial, of the essence
   
   
5. [adjective] being or relating to or containing the essence of a plant etc; "essential oil"
   
   
6. [adjective] applying to essential legal principles and rules of right; "substantive law"
   Synonyms: substantive
   
   
7. [adjective] absolutely required and not to be used up or sacrificed
   
   

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Related Words:

• desideratum
• must
• need, want

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