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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.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

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.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Related terms

• essence

Translations

Further reading

• essential on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• siletanes

English

Etymology

From Latin insistens, participle of insisto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?s?st?nt/

Adjective

insistent (comparative more insistent, superlative most insistent)

1. (obsolete) Standing or resting on something.
2. Urgent in dwelling upon anything; persistent in urging or maintaining.
3. Extorting attention or notice; coercively staring or prominent; vivid; intense.
4. (ornithology) Standing on end: specifically said of the hind toe of a bird when its base is inserted so high on the shank that only its tip touches the ground: correlated with incumbent.

Derived terms

• insistently

Related terms

• insist
• insistence

Translations

References

• insistent in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• tintiness

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin ?nsist?ns.

Adjective

insistent (masculine and feminine plural insistents)

1. insistent

Derived terms

• insistència
• insistentment

Related terms

• insistir

Further reading

• “insistent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “insistent” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “insistent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “insistent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Verb

insistent

1. third-person plural present indicative of insister
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of insister

Anagrams

• intestins

Latin

Verb

?nsistent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of ?nsist?

Romanian

Etymology

From French insistente.

Adjective

insistent m or n (feminine singular insistent?, masculine plural insisten?i, feminine and neuter plural insistente)

1. insistent

Declension