essential
essential is a 9-letter English word with 12 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Belonging to the essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- adjective. Belonging to the essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is.
- adjective. Hence, really existing; existent.
- adjective. Important in the highest degree; indispensable to the attainment of an object; indispensably necessary.
- adjective. Containing the essence or characteristic portion of a substance, as of a plant; highly rectified; pure; hence, unmixed; as, an essential oil.
- adjective. Necessary; indispensable; -- said of those tones which constitute a chord, in distinction from ornamental or passing tones.
- adjective. Idiopathic; independent of other diseases.
- noun. anything indispensable
"food and shelter are necessities of life"
"the essentials of the good life"
- adjective. defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established
"substantive law"
- adjective. basic and fundamental
"the essential feature"
- adjective. of the greatest importance
"the all-important subject of disarmament"
"crucial information"
- adjective. absolutely necessary; vitally necessary
"essential tools and materials"
"funds essential to the completion of the project"
- adjective. being or relating to or containing the essence of a plant etc
"essential oil"
Synonyms
necessary, necessity, requirement, requisite, substantive, crucial, indispensable
Common word forms
essentials, essentially, essentiality, essentialize, essentialness
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