Thesaurus: essential

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1. a. class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/belonging">Belonging to the class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/essence">essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is.
2. a. Hence, really existing; existent.
3. a. Important in the highest degree; indispensable to the attainment of an object; indispensably necessary.
4. a. Containing the essence or characteristic portion of a substance, as of a plant; highly rectified; pure; hence, unmixed; as, an essential oil.
5. a. Necessary; indispensable; -- said of those tones which constitute a chord, in distinction from ornamental or passing tones.
6. a. Idiopathic; independent of other diseases.
7. adj. absolutely necessary; vitally necessary
8. adj. basic and fundamental
9. adj. of the greatest importance
10. adj. being or relating to or containing the essence of a plant etc
11. adj. defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established
12. n. anything indispensable