essential

Plural: essentials

Noun

• anything indispensable
  • "the essentials of the good life"
• A necessary ingredient.
• A fundamental ingredient.

Adjective Satellite

• absolutely necessary; vitally necessary
  • "essential tools and materials"
  • "funds essential to the completion of the project"
• of the greatest importance

Adjective

• basic and fundamental
  • "the essential feature"
• being or relating to or containing the essence of a plant etc
  • "essential oil"
• defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established

Adj

• Necessary.
• Very important; of high importance.
• Necessary for survival but not synthesized by the organism, thus needing to be ingested.
• Being in the basic form; showing its essence.
• Really existing; existent.
• 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.
• Idiopathic.
• Having the nature of essence; not physical.

Examples

• Don’t mind him being grumpy. That’s the essential Fred.
• essential blepharospasm

Synonyms

all important, all-important, crucial, indispensable, necessary, necessity, of the essence, requirement, requisite, substantive, austere, bare, bare-bones, bargain, basic, big, built-in, central, cheap, consequential, critical, default, discreet, economy, elemental, elementary, epochful, essential, existent, existing, extant, extraordinary, fatefraught, fateful, fatesome, foundational, fundamental, heavy, high on the totem pole, historic, immanent, inbuilt, incomplex, infused, ingrained, inherent, innegligible, instilled, integral, intrinsic, inwrought, key, life-or-death, light, meaningful, modest, must-have, necessar, needed, no-frills, noted, noticeable, observable, outstanding, paramount, pertinent, plain, prerequisite, pure, radical, relevant, remarkable, required, restrained, run-of-the-mill, salient, significant, simple, slimline, spartan, standard, stripped, stripped down, uncomplicated, unembellished, unignorable, uninvolved, unmodified, unvarnished, valuable, vanilla, vital, weighty

Antonyms

adjective, inessential, accessorial, accidental, adscititious, consequential, existent, important, incidental, intrinsic, non-essential, nonessential, noteworthy, significant, unessential, unimportant, unnecessary, unneeded, weighty

Related Words

essence, essentials

Anagrams of essential