essential meaning
EN[ɪˈsɛn.ʃəl] [əˈsɛn.tʃəl]US
WEssential
- Essential or essentials may refer to:
- NounPLessentialsSUF-ial
- AdjectiveCOMmore essentialSUPmost essential
- Necessary.
- Very important; of high importance.
- In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. Essential public services are cut so that the rich may pay less tax. […]
- Being in the basic form; showing its essence.
- Don’t mind him being grumpy. That’s the essential Fred.
- Really existing; existent.
- (of a lamination of a 3-manifold) Such that each complementary region is irreducible, the boundary of each complementary region is incompressible by disks and monogons in the complementary region, and no leaf is a sphere or a torus bounding a solid torus in the manifold.
- (medicine) Idiopathic.
- Necessary.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Outside shooting is essential to beating a zone defense.
- Complete excision including tenosynovectomy is essential even in "non-specific" rice body tenosynovitis.
- There can be something absurd or even melancholy about the open-plan minipalaces some middle-class Britons consider essential for civilised living.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- Iron-based superconductors have been considered to be very promising in high-field applications, for which multifilamentary wire and tape conductors with high mechanical strength are essential.
- In science fiction films, suspension of disbelief is essential.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of essential in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adjectives
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Adjectives
- en essentially
- en essentials
- en essentialist
- en essentialise
- en essentiality
Source: Wiktionary