essential
//ɪˈsɛn.ʃəl//
Forms
- Comparative
- more essential
- Superlative
- most essential
- Plural
- essentials
Definitions
1.Necessary.
- Thus, research-based resources with the potential to assist teachers prepare secondary students for tertiary education are essential.
2.Very important; of high importance.
3.Necessary for survival but not synthesized by the organism, thus needing to be ingested.
4.Being in the basic form; showing its essence.
- Don’t mind him being grumpy. That’s the essential Fred.
1.A necessary ingredient.
2.A fundamental ingredient.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2086
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Word family
Etymology
From Late Latin essentiālis
From Latin essentia (“being, essence”).