different between essential vs vitals

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?va?t?lz/

Noun

vitals pl (plural only)

1. (plural only) Those organs of the body that are essential for life.
2. (plural only, figuratively) Those parts of a system without which it cannot function.
3. (medicine, plural only) Vital signs.

Quotations

• 1827 Ann Hasseltine Judson - An account of the American Baptist mission to the Burman empire

  they were ripped open from the lowest to the highest extremity of the stomach, and their vitals and part of their bowels were hanging out

• 2003 David R Woodward - Trial by Friendship: Anglo-American Relations, 1917-1918

  This final victory can only be had by reaching the vitals of Germany and by destroying her armed forces.

• 1991 Suzy Szasz - Living With It: Why You Don't Have to Be Healthy to Be Happy

  At least once an hour a nurse came into the room, either to check on me or my roommate, or to take vitals

Derived terms

• stap my vitals

Anagrams

• vistal

Catalan

Adjective

vitals

1. plural of vital