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essential
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)
- Necessary.
- Synonyms: indispensable; see also Thesaurus:requisite
- Antonyms: accidental, accessorial, incidental, unnecessary, unneeded
- Very important; of high importance.
- Synonyms: crucial; see also Thesaurus:important
- Antonyms: unimportant; see also Thesaurus:insignificant
- (biology) necessary for survival but not synthesized by the organism, thus needing to be ingested
- Being in the basic form; showing its essence.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:intrinsic, Thesaurus:bare-bones
- Antonyms: adscititious; see also Thesaurus:extrinsic
- Really existing; existent.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:existent
- Antonyms: see Thesaurus:inexistent
- (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?)
- (medicine) Idiopathic.
- Having the nature of essence; not physical.
Antonyms
- inessential, unessential, non-essential, nonessential
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
essential (plural essentials)
- A necessary ingredient.
- A fundamental ingredient.
- (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Related terms
- essence
Translations
Further reading
- essential on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- siletanes
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oldest
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???ld?st/
- (General American) enPR: ?ld, IPA(key): /?o?ld?st/
- Hyphenation: old?est
Adjective
oldest
- superlative form of old: most old
Synonyms
- oldermost (in Western dialects of the US)
Related terms
- eldest
Translations
Noun
oldest (plural oldests)
- The oldest child in a family, or individual in a group.
Anagrams
- deslot, dotels, stoled
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- what oldest living thing on earth
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