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Essential   /ɪsˈɛnʃəl/  /isˈɛnʃəl/  /əsˈɛntʃəl/  /isˈɛntʃəl/   Listen
Essential

adjective
1.
Absolutely necessary; vitally necessary.  Synonym: indispensable.  "Funds essential to the completion of the project" , "An indispensable worker"
2.
Basic and fundamental.
3.
Of the greatest importance.  Synonyms: all-important, all important, crucial, of the essence.  "Crucial information" , "In chess cool nerves are of the essence"
4.
Being or relating to or containing the essence of a plant etc.
5.
Defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established.  Synonym: substantive.
noun
1.
Anything indispensable.  Synonyms: necessary, necessity, requirement, requisite.  "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"



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"Essential" Quotes from Famous Books



... hope to prevail upon the Swedish lords to recede from this claim yet," said Leuchtmar. "Rest is very essential to them also just at this time, for they have enough to do to contend with the Imperialists, and the Danes are threatening them with war. They will not desire to be embroiled with Brandenburg at the same time. I will ...
— The Youth of the Great Elector • L. Muhlbach

... when he had grievously exceeded it the excess had been paid with no more protest than a gentle "I think you ought not to have done this." The two had lived together when John was at home without ostentation or any appearance of style, but with every essential of luxury. The house and its furnishings were old-fashioned, but everything was of the best, and when three or four of the elder man's friends would come to dine, as happened occasionally, the contents of the cellar made them look ...
— David Harum - A Story of American Life • Edward Noyes Westcott

... physiological facts, bearing upon the presence or absence of white colors in the higher animals, have lately been adduced by Dr. Ogle. It has been found that a colored or dark pigment in the olfactory region of the nostrils is essential to perfect smell, and this pigment is rarely deficient except when the whole animal is pure white. In these cases the creature is almost without smell or taste. This, Dr. Ogle believes, explains the ...
— The Galaxy - Vol. 23, No. 1 • Various

... eternal fraternity and friendship? The Freeman says, "We contend that the good government of Ireland by England is impossible, not so much by reason of natural obstacles, but because of the radical, essential difference in the public order of the two countries. This, considered in the abstract, makes a gulf profound, impassible—an obstacle no human ingenuity can remove ...
— Ireland as It Is - And as It Would be Under Home Rule • Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)

... foundations of the structure had in some way become weakened, for the whole building had settled and was leaning over at a terrifying divergence from the perpendicular. Being constructed of iron truss-work similar to that of a bridge, the essential framework still held together, but the outside walls, mere shells of stone and brick, had cracked and given way under the strain, falling piece-meal into the street below. Even as he looked, a stone dropped from a window pediment and crashed into splinters on the pavement a ...
— The Doomsman • Van Tassel Sutphen


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