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Meaning of 'essential' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Essential [ a.]
- Belonging to the essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is.
- Hence, really existing; existent.
- Important in the highest degree; indispensable to the attainment of an object; indispensably necessary.
- Containing the essence or characteristic portion of a substance, as of a plant; highly rectified; pure; hence, unmixed; as, an essential oil.
- Necessary; indispensable; -- said of those tones which constitute a chord, in distinction from ornamental or passing tones.
- Idiopathic; independent of other diseases.

Meaning of 'essential' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . essential [ n]
Meaning (1):
- anything indispensable
Example in sentence:
  • a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained;
  • allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions;
  • food and shelter are necessities of life;
  • the essentials of the good life
2 . essential [ a]
Meaning (2):
- being or relating to or containing the essence of a plant etc
Example in sentence:
  • essential oil
Meaning (3):
- defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established
Example in sentence:
  • substantive law
Meaning (4):
- basic and fundamental
Example in sentence:
  • the essential feature
5 . essential [ s]
Meaning (5):
- absolutely necessary; vitally necessary
Example in sentence:
  • an indispensable worker;
  • essential tools and materials;
  • funds essential to the completion of the project
Meaning (6):
- of the greatest importance
Example in sentence:
  • crucial information;
  • in chess cool nerves are of the essence;
  • the all-important subject of disarmament

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