essential
anything indispensable (Freq. 1)
- 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
• Syn:
necessity, requirement, requisite, necessary
• Ant:
inessential
• Derivationally related forms:
requisite (for: requisite), require (for: requirement), necessitous (for: necessity), necessary (for: necessity), necessitate (for: necessity)
• Hypernyms:
thing
• Hyponyms:
desideratum, must, need, want
1. absolutely necessary;
vitally necessary (Freq. 17)
- essential tools and materials
- funds essential to the completion of the project
- an indispensable worker
• Syn:
indispensable
• Similar to:
necessary
• Derivationally related forms:
indispensableness (for: indispensable), indispensability (for: indispensable), essentialness
2. basic and fundamental (Freq. 15)
- the essential feature
• Ant:
inessential
• Similar to:
basal, primary, biogenic, constituent, constitutional,
constitutive, organic, must, no-frills, staple, substantial,
substantive, virtual, vital, life-sustaining
• See Also:
crucial, important, of import, indispensable, intrinsic,
intrinsical, necessary, primary, unexpendable
• Derivationally related forms:
essentialness, essentiality
• Attrubites:
essentiality, essentialness
3. of the greatest importance (Freq. 8)
- the all-important subject of disarmament
- crucial information
- in chess cool nerves are of the essence
• Syn:
all-important, all important, crucial, of the essence
• Similar to:
important, of import
• Derivationally related forms:
essence, essentialness, essentiality, cruciality (for: crucial)
4. being or relating to or containing the essence of a plant etc
- essential oil
• Pertains to noun:
essence
• Derivationally related forms:
essence, essentialness
5. defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established
- substantive law
• Syn:
substantive
• Ant:
adjective (for: substantive)
• Derivationally related forms:
essentialness
• Topics:
law, jurisprudence
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