different between essential vs aboriginal

English

Alternative forms

• essentiall (obsolete)

Etymology

From Late Latin essenti?lis, from Latin essentia (“being, essence”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??s?n.??l/, [??s?n.t??l]
• Hyphenation: es?sen?tial

Adjective

essential (comparative more essential, superlative most essential)

1. Necessary.

   Synonyms: indispensable; see also Thesaurus:requisite

   Antonyms: accidental, accessorial, incidental, unnecessary, unneeded
2. Very important; of high importance.

   Synonyms: crucial; see also Thesaurus:important

   Antonyms: unimportant; see also Thesaurus:insignificant
3. (biology) necessary for survival but not synthesized by the organism, thus needing to be ingested
4. Being in the basic form; showing its essence.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:intrinsic, Thesaurus:bare-bones

   Antonyms: adscititious; see also Thesaurus:extrinsic

5. Really existing; existent.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:existent

   Antonyms: see Thesaurus:inexistent
6. (geometry) 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.

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7. (medicine) Idiopathic.
8. Having the nature of essence; not physical.

Antonyms

• inessential, unessential, non-essential, nonessential

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

essential (plural essentials)

1. A necessary ingredient.
2. A fundamental ingredient.

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Related terms

• essence

Translations

Further reading

• essential on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• siletanes

English

Etymology

See Aboriginal.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?æb.????d??.n?.l?/, /?æb.????d??.?n.l?/

Adjective

aboriginal (comparative more aboriginal, superlative most aboriginal)

1. First according to historical or scientific records; original; indigenous; primitive. [First attested in the mid 17th century.]
2. Living in a land before colonization by the Europeans. [First attested in the late 17th century.]
3. Alternative letter-case form of Aboriginal [First attested in the late 18th century.]

Synonyms

• (indigenous to a place): ancient, autochthonous, earliest, endemic, first, indigenous, native, original, primeval, primitive, primordial

Derived terms

• aboriginality
• aboriginally

Related terms

• aborigine

Translations

Noun

aboriginal (plural aboriginals)

1. An animal or plant native to a region. [First attested in the mid 18th century.]
2. Alternative letter-case form of Aboriginal [First attested in the mid 18th century.]

Usage notes

• Using uncapitalized aboriginal to refer to people or anything associated with people may cause offence.
• In Canada and Australia, style manuals recommend against using the noun Aboriginal for a person or people.
• See also the usage notes under Aboriginal.

Translations

References

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /abo?ixi?nal/, [a.??o.?i.xi?nal]

Noun

aboriginal m or f (plural aboriginales)

1. Aborigine (original inhabitant of Australia)

   Synonym: aborigen