Essential

Definition:

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

Compare essential with other words:

essential vs. foundation

decisive vs. essential

essential vs. principle

essential vs. needs

essential vs. prominent

cardinal vs. essential

essential vs. essentials

essential vs. necessity

elemental vs. essential

depend vs. essential

compulsory vs. essential

central vs. essential

essential vs. octoyl

essential vs. lifestring

essential vs. methenyl

essential vs. indogen

essential vs. essentiality

essential vs. radical

essential vs. principal

entity vs. essential

essential vs. need

essential vs. needed

essential vs. obligatory

essential vs. innate

essential vs. require

connotative vs. essential

essential vs. mobile

essential vs. primary

essential vs. major

essential vs. peripheral

essential vs. recognition

essential vs. place

beneficial vs. essential

essential vs. potential

desirable vs. essential

essential vs. required

essential vs. mandatory

essential vs. relevant

essential vs. integral

essential vs. macedonian

essential vs. vital

core vs. essential

essential vs. hypostasis

essential vs. key

concept vs. essential

dispensable vs. essential

constitutive vs. essential

essential vs. vitals

critical vs. essential

cornerstone vs. essential

essential vs. expendable

essential vs. staple

essential vs. theorem

essential vs. implicit

basically vs. essential

deficient vs. essential

deficiency vs. essential

essential vs. intrinsic

elementary vs. essential

essential vs. obligate

essential vs. mineral

essential vs. substantial

essential vs. extraneous

circumstantial vs. essential

essential vs. inhere

crux vs. essential

essential vs. transcendentalism

essential vs. otiose

essential vs. penumbra

essential vs. ingredient

essential vs. fundamental

essential vs. quintessential

essential vs. essentially

essential vs. incidental

essential vs. unnecessary

adscititious vs. essential

essential vs. unimportant

accessorial vs. essential

essential vs. unessential

accidental vs. essential

essential vs. inessential

crucial vs. essential

essential vs. indispensable

essential vs. manifold

bound vs. essential

essential vs. torus

essential vs. leaf

essential vs. sphere

essential vs. incompressible

disk vs. essential

boundary vs. essential

essential vs. irreducible

essential vs. lamination

essence vs. essential

basic vs. essential

essential vs. important

essential vs. importance

essential vs. instrumental

base vs. essential

accident vs. essential

essential vs. nonessential

essential vs. imperative

essential vs. necessary

essential vs. primal

essential vs. requisite

essential vs. substantive