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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



... mathematical sciences, who is capable of calculating and comparing my data with those of other investigators, of rectifying errors which may have escaped me, and of guarding himself against the commission of others. Such an editor will preserve the substance of the work; will omit nothing that is essential; will give technical details the harsh and rude, but concise style of a seaman; and will well perform his task in supplying my place and publishing the work as I would ...
— Laperouse • Ernest Scott
... Ugar. In five minutes they were following Anak to the valley of the Neanderthalers. When they arrived, Uglik picked out the largest of the caves, and told the hunters to choose their own. In a few minutes the tribe was established in their new home. Esle was released from her bonds, for it was essential that the High Priestess of Degar Astok prepare the ...
— B. C. 30,000 • Sterner St. Paul Meek
... representative of its little giver. He traced out the points of resemblance as he went along. The delicacy and character of refinement for which that kind of rose is remarkable above many of its more superb kindred; a refinement essential and unalterable by decay or otherwise, as true a characteristic of the child as of the flower; a delicacy that called for gentle handling and tender cherishing;—the sweetness, rare indeed, but ...
— Queechy • Susan Warner
... very necessary, very unavoidable; absolutely necessary one may say; a fact, which the united efforts of all the Peels of the day could in nowise longer delay, having already delayed it to the utmost extent of their power. It was essential that the corn-laws should be repealed; but by no means essential that this should be done ...
— The Three Clerks • Anthony Trollope
... important question arises in my mind. Is divine revelation something that rests entirely on matters of fact; or is the most essential part, which concerns us to know, a mere matter of opinion? On a few moments of reflection, however, it appears that this can hardly admit of a question. For all that relates to a future, and an eternal state, must be a mere matter of opinion only; and the facts recorded ...
— A Series of Letters In Defence of Divine Revelation • Hosea Ballou


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