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Essential

ɪˈsɛnʃl

Essential definitions

adjective

Inflections:

essential

absolutely necessary; extremely important

"it is essential to keep up-to-date records"

Synonyms:
crucial necessary key vital indispensable needed required called for requisite important all-important vitally important of the utmost importance of great consequence of the essence critical life-and-death imperative mandatory compulsory obligatory compelling urgent pressing burning acute paramount pre-eminent high-priority significant consequential
- fundamental or central to the nature of something or someone
  
  "the essential weakness of the plaintiff's case"
- (of an amino acid or fatty acid) required for normal growth but not synthesized in the body and therefore necessary in the diet
(of a disease) with no known external stimulus or cause; idiopathic

"essential hypertension"

noun

Inflections:

essential essentials