different between essential vs straightforward

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 straight +? forward.

Adjective

straightforward (comparative more straightforward, superlative most straightforward)

1. Proceeding in a straight course or manner; not deviating.
2. easy, simple, without difficulty
   • 2013, Daniel Taylor, Steven Gerrard goal against Poland ensures England will go to World Cup (in The Guardian, 15 October 2013)[1]

     Poland played with great energy, quick to the ball, strong in the challenge, and projecting the clear sense they had absolutely no intention whatsoever of making this a straightforward night.

3. (figuratively) direct; honest; frank
   • 1992, George J. Church, "Why Voters Don't Trust Clinton," Time, 20 Apr, p. 38,

     A great deal of the uneasiness about Clinton reflects his propensity to dance away from straightforward yes or no answers to any character question.

Synonyms

• (not deviating): See also Thesaurus:comprehensible
• (easy, simple): See also Thesaurus:easy
• (honest, frank): See also Thesaurus:honest

Derived terms

• straightforwardly
• straightforwardness
• unstraightforward

Translations

Adverb

straightforward (comparative more straightforward, superlative most straightforward)

1. In a straightforward manner; straightforwards; straightforwardly.

Hypernyms

• forward

Translations