ALL meanings of essential
- noun essential Absolutely necessary; extremely important. 1
- adjective essential strictly necessary 1
- noun essential be necessary for 1
- adjective essential basic, fundamental 1
- noun,plural essential basics 1
- noun essential sth necessary 1
- noun essential A necessary ingredient. 0
- noun essential A fundamental ingredient. 0
- adjective essential Very important; of high importance. 0
- adjective essential Being in the basic form; showing its essence. 0
- adjective essential Really existing; existent. 0
- adjective essential (of a lamination of a 3-manifold) 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. 0
- adjective essential (medicine) Idiopathic. 0
- adjective essential Something that is essential is extremely important or absolutely necessary to a particular subject, situation, or activity. 0
- countable noun essential The essentials are the things that are absolutely necessary for the situation you are in or for the task you are doing. 0
- adjective essential The essential aspects of something are its most basic or important aspects. 0
- noun plural essential The essentials are the most important principles, ideas, or facts of a particular subject. 0
- adjective essential vitally important; absolutely necessary 0
- adjective essential basic; fundamental 0
- adjective essential completely realized; absolute; perfect 0
- adjective essential (of an amino acid or a fatty acid) necessary for the normal growth of an organism but not synthesized by the organism and therefore required in the diet 0
- adjective essential derived from or relating to an extract of a plant, drug, etc 0
- adjective essential (of a property) guaranteed by the identity of the subject; necessary. Thus, if having the atomic number 79 is an essential property of gold, nothing can be gold unless it has that atomic number 0
- adjective essential denoting or relating to a note that belongs to the fundamental harmony of a chord or piece 0
- adjective essential (of a disease) having no obvious external cause 0
- adjective essential (of a mineral constituent of a rock) necessary for defining the classification of a rock. Its absence alters the rock's name and classification 0
- noun essential something fundamental or indispensable 0
- noun essential an essential note 0
- adjective essential of or constituting the intrinsic, fundamental nature of something; basic; inherent 0
- adjective essential absolute; complete; perfect 0
- adjective essential absolutely necessary; indispensable; requisite 0
- adjective essential containing, or having the properties of, a concentrated extract of a plant, drug, food, etc. 0
- adjective essential needed for life or health but not synthesized within the body, as an amino acid or vitamin that must be consumed 0
- noun essential something necessary or fundamental; indispensable, inherent, or basic feature or principle 0