DICTOMETER

ESSENTIAL

(essential, esencial, fundamental, necesario, absolutt nødvendig, livs-, livsviktig, vesentlig, vital)

1. Synonyms:
   • Necessity
   • Essential
   • Requirement
   • Requisite
   • Necessary
   Definitions:
   • anything indispensable
   Examples:
   • 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
   Antonyms:
   inessential, nonessential
   
   
   

1. Synonyms:
   • Essential
   • Indispensable
   Definitions:
   • absolutely necessary
   • vitally necessary
   Examples:
   • Essential tools and materials
   • Funds essential to the completion of the project
   • An indispensable worker
   Antonyms:
   • Unnecessary
   • Unneeded
   
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Essential
   Definitions:
   • basic and fundamental
   Examples:
   • The essential feature
   Antonyms:
   • INESSENTIAL
   • accessorial
   • adscititious
   • incidental, nonessential
   
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • All-important
   • All important
   • Crucial
   • Essential
   • Of the essence
   Definitions:
   • of the greatest importance
   Examples:
   • The all-important subject of disarmament
   • Crucial information
   • In chess cool nerves are of the essence
   Antonyms:
   • Unimportant
   
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Essential
   Definitions:
   • being or relating to or containing the essence of a plant etc
   Examples:
   • Essential oil
   Antonyms:
   • STANTIVE
   
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Substantive
   • Essential
   Definitions:
   • defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established
   Examples:
   • Substantive law