Dictionary Entry
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.
9 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Belonging to the essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is.
- 2adjective
Hence, really existing; existent.
- 3adjective
Important in the highest degree; indispensable to the attainment of an object; indispensably necessary.
- 4adjective
Containing the essence or characteristic portion of a substance, as of a plant; highly rectified; pure; hence, unmixed; as, an essential oil.
- 5adjective
Necessary; indispensable; -- said of those tones which constitute a chord, in distinction from ornamental or passing tones.
- 6adjective
Idiopathic; independent of other diseases.
- 7noun
anything indispensable
"food and shelter are necessities of life"
"the essentials of the good life"
- 8adjective
defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established
"substantive law"
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- 9adjective
basic and fundamental
"the essential feature"
- 10adjective
of the greatest importance
"the all-important subject of disarmament"
"crucial information"
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- 11adjective
absolutely necessary; vitally necessary
"essential tools and materials"
"funds essential to the completion of the project"
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- 12adjective
being or relating to or containing the essence of a plant etc
"essential oil"
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