Essential: alternatives and connections

Serving to form, compose, or make up; elemental; component.

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Serving to form, compose, or make up; elemental; component.

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Belonging to, or inherent in, the constitution, or in the structure of body or mind; as, a constitutional infirmity; constitutional ardor or dullness.

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Belonging to, or inherent in, the constitution, or in the structure of body or mind; as, a constitutional infirmity; constitutional ardor or dullness.

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Tending or assisting to constitute or compose; elemental; essential.

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Tending or assisting to constitute or compose; elemental; essential.

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Full of, or burdened by, import; charged with great interests; restless; anxious.

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Full of, or burdened by, import; charged with great interests; restless; anxious.

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To be obliged; to be necessitated; -- expressing either physical or moral necessity; as, a man must eat for nourishment; we must submit to the laws.

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To be obliged; to be necessitated; -- expressing either physical or moral necessity; as, a man must eat for nourishment; we must submit to the laws.

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Such as must be; impossible to be otherwise; not to be avoided; inevitable.

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Such as must be; impossible to be otherwise; not to be avoided; inevitable.

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Of or pertaining to an organ or its functions, or to objects composed of organs; consisting of organs, or containing them; as, the organic structure…

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Of or pertaining to an organ or its functions, or to objects composed of organs; consisting of organs, or containing them; as, the organic structure…

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A settled mart; an emporium; a city or town to which merchants brought commodities for sale or exportation in bulk; a place for wholesale traffic.

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A settled mart; an emporium; a city or town to which merchants brought commodities for sale or exportation in bulk; a place for wholesale traffic.

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Belonging to substance; actually existing; real; as, substantial life.

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Belonging to substance; actually existing; real; as, substantial life.

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Betokening or expressing existence; as, the substantive verb, that is, the verb to be.

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Betokening or expressing existence; as, the substantive verb, that is, the verb to be.

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Having the power of acting or of invisible efficacy without the agency of the material or sensible part; potential; energizing.

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Having the power of acting or of invisible efficacy without the agency of the material or sensible part; potential; energizing.

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Belonging or relating to life, either animal or vegetable; as, vital energies; vital functions; vital actions.

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Belonging or relating to life, either animal or vegetable; as, vital energies; vital functions; vital actions.

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Anything desired; that of which the lack is felt; a want generally felt and acknowledge.

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To be obliged; to be necessitated; -- expressing either physical or moral necessity; as, a man must eat for nourishment; we must submit to the laws.

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A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.

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The state of not having; the condition of being without anything; absence or scarcity of what is needed or desired; deficiency; lack; as, a want of p…

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Whatever exists, or is conceived to exist, as a separate entity, whether animate or inanimate; any separable or distinguishable object of thought.

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A point equally distant from the extremities of a line, figure, or body, or from all parts of the circumference of a circle; the middle point or plac…

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A point equally distant from the extremities of a line, figure, or body, or from all parts of the circumference of a circle; the middle point or plac…

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The constituent elementary notions which constitute a complex notion, and must be enumerated to define it; sometimes called the nominal essence.

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The constituent elementary notions which constitute a complex notion, and must be enumerated to define it; sometimes called the nominal essence.

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The quality of being essential; the essential part.

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The quality of being essential; the essential part.

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The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite; inevitableness; indispensableness.

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The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite; inevitableness; indispensableness.

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Having the form of a cross; appertaining to a cross; cruciform; intersecting; as, crucial ligaments; a crucial incision.

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Having the form of a cross; appertaining to a cross; cruciform; intersecting; as, crucial ligaments; a crucial incision.

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Full of, or burdened by, import; charged with great interests; restless; anxious.

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Full of, or burdened by, import; charged with great interests; restless; anxious.

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Not dispensable; impossible to be omitted, remitted, or spared; absolutely necessary or requisite.

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Not dispensable; impossible to be omitted, remitted, or spared; absolutely necessary or requisite.

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Inward; internal; hence, true; genuine; real; essential; inherent; not merely apparent or accidental; -- opposed to extrinsic; as, the intrinsic valu…

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Inward; internal; hence, true; genuine; real; essential; inherent; not merely apparent or accidental; -- opposed to extrinsic; as, the intrinsic valu…

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Intrinsic.

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Intrinsic.

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Such as must be; impossible to be otherwise; not to be avoided; inevitable.

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Such as must be; impossible to be otherwise; not to be avoided; inevitable.

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First in order of time or development or in intention; primitive; fundamental; original.

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First in order of time or development or in intention; primitive; fundamental; original.

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The constituent elementary notions which constitute a complex notion, and must be enumerated to define it; sometimes called the nominal essence.

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The quality of being essential; the essential part.

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The quality of being essential; the essential part.

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Having the form of a cross; appertaining to a cross; cruciform; intersecting; as, crucial ligaments; a crucial incision.

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Not dispensable; impossible to be omitted, remitted, or spared; absolutely necessary or requisite.

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Such as must be; impossible to be otherwise; not to be avoided; inevitable.

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The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite; inevitableness; indispensableness.

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The act of requiring; demand; requisition.

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That which is required, or is necessary; something indispensable.

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Betokening or expressing existence; as, the substantive verb, that is, the verb to be.

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Full of, or burdened by, import; charged with great interests; restless; anxious.

Essential overlaps with important, but its tone, intensity or usual context may differ. Check the definition before substituting it.

Full of, or burdened by, import; charged with great interests; restless; anxious.

Essential means necessary rather than merely important.

Full of, or burdened by, import; charged with great interests; restless; anxious.

Use when something is necessary rather than merely valuable.

Added to a substantive as an attribute; of the nature of an adjunct; as, an adjective word or sentence.

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Added to a substantive as an attribute; of the nature of an adjunct; as, an adjective word or sentence.

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Having no essence or being.

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Having no essence or being.

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