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essential

• (s) absolutely necessary; vitally necessary
  • essential tools and materials
  • funds essential to the completion of the project
  • an indispensable worker
  indispensable,
• (a) basic and fundamental
  • the essential feature
• (s) of the greatest importance
  • the all-important subject of disarmament
  • crucial information
  • in chess cool nerves are of the essence
  all-important, all important, of the essence, crucial,
• (a) being or relating to or containing the essence of a plant etc
  • essential oil
• (a) defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established
  • substantive law
  substantive,

Nouns

• (n) anything indispensable
  • food and shelter are necessities of life
  • the essentials of the good life
  • allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions
  • a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained
  necessary, requisite, necessity, requirement,

Synonyms

necessary requisite necessity requirement indispensable all-important of the essence crucial substantive

Antonyms

inessential nonessential unessential adjective procedural

See also

crucial important of import indispensable intrinsic intrinsical necessary primary unexpendable

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