essential

== English == === Alternative forms === essentiall (obsolete) === Etymology === From Late Latin essentiālis, from Latin essentia (“being, essence”). === Pronunciation === (UK, Canada) IPA(key): /ɪˈsɛn.ʃəl/ (US) IPA(key): /ɪˈsɛn.ʃəl/, /əˈsɛn.tʃəl/ Hyphenation: es‧sen‧tial === Adjective === essential (comparative more essential, superlative most essential) Necessary. Synonyms: indispensable; see also Thesaurus:requisite Antonyms: accidental, accessorial, incidental, unnecessary, unneeded Very important; of high importance. Synonyms: crucial; see also Thesaurus:important Antonyms: unimportant; see also Thesaurus:insignificant (biology) Necessary for survival but not synthesized by the organism, thus needing to be ingested. Being in the basic form; showing its essence. Synonyms: see Thesaurus:intrinsic, Thesaurus:bare-bones Antonyms: adscititious; see also Thesaurus:extrinsic Really existing; existent. Synonyms: see Thesaurus:existent Antonyms: see Thesaurus:inexistent (geometry) 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. (Can we add an example for this sense? (difference between 1 and 2)) (medicine) Idiopathic. Having the nature of essence; not physical. ==== Antonyms ==== inessential, unessential, non-essential, nonessential ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Noun === essential (plural essentials) A necessary ingredient. Synonym: must-have A fundamental ingredient. (Can we add an example for this sense?) ==== Related terms ==== essentials essence ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === essential on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Anagrams === siletanes