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Vital   /vˈaɪtəl/   Listen
Vital

adjective
1.
Urgently needed; absolutely necessary.  Synonym: critical.  "Critical medical supplies" , "Vital for a healthy society" , "Of vital interest"
2.
Performing an essential function in the living body.  Synonym: life-sustaining.  "Blood and other vital fluids" , "The loss of vital heat in shock" , "A vital spot" , "Life-giving love and praise"
3.
Full of spirit.  Synonyms: full of life, lively.  "A vital and charismatic leader" , "This whole lively world"
4.
Manifesting or characteristic of life.  "Vital signs"



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"Vital" Quotes from Famous Books



... was her dark, vital self. Outside the college, the outer darkness, Skrebensky was waiting. On the edge of the night, he was attentive. ...
— The Rainbow • D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
... smile often accompanies what is called "the white voice." This is a voice production where a head resonance alone is employed, without sufficient of the apoggio or enough of the mouth resonance to give the tone a vital quality. This "white voice" should be thoroughly understood and is one of the many shades of tone a singer can use at times, just as the impressionist uses various unusual colors to produce ...
— Caruso and Tetrazzini on the Art of Singing • Enrico Caruso and Luisa Tetrazzini
... Some of his male slaves grew pale and languid as if their lives were being sucked away. The people whispered that the knight commander was using their blood for magic drinks. Don Priamo wished to renew his youth; he was eager to reanimate his body with vital fires. The Grand Inquisitor of Majorca hinted at the possibility of paying a visit, with familiars and alguazils, to the apartments of the knight commander, but the latter who was a cousin of the Inquisitor, ...
— The Dead Command - From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan • Vicente Blasco Ibanez
... not last very long, it being of vital importance for the Jews to separate their cause from that of the new-comers. The responsibility for the persecutions which took place in the first century must be attributed to them, not to the Romans, whose tolerance in religious matters had become almost a state rule. The first attempt, made ...
— Pagan and Christian Rome • Rodolfo Lanciani
... machine was logical enough if you understood it, but beyond noting that it bore striking resemblance to the vital organs of a clock, I cannot ...
— Mr. Hawkins' Humorous Adventures • Edgar Franklin


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