different between inbred vs essential

English

Pronunciation

• (attributive adjective, noun) IPA^(key): /??n?b??d/
• (predicative adjective, verb) IPA^(key): /??n?b??d/, /??n?b??d/
• Rhymes: -?d

Adjective

inbred (comparative more inbred, superlative most inbred)

1. Bred within; innate.
   • 1899, Kenneth Grahame, The Golden Age/A White-washed Uncle

     We who from daily experience knew Miss Smedley like a book—were we not only too well aware that she had neither accomplishments nor charms—no characteristic, in fact, but an inbred viciousness of temper and disposition?

   • 1666, John Bryden, Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders

     His cold experience tempers all his heat, And inbred worth doth boasting valour slight.

2. (often derogatory) Having an ancestry characterized by inbreeding.
3. (genetics) Describing a strain produced through successive generations of inbreeding resulting in a population of genetically identical individuals which are homozygous at all genetic loci.

Synonyms

• (bred within): inborn, indigenous; See also Thesaurus:innate
• (having an ancestry characterized by inbreeding):
• (of a population of genetically identical individuals):

Translations

Verb

inbred

1. simple past tense and past participle of inbreed
   • 1920, Chesla Clella Sherlock, Care and Management of Rabbits Chapter 3

     People discovered that the Belgian hare of those days was a very delicate animal and that it was subject to many diseases. It had been inbred so long in order to produce show animals that its vitality was nearly gone.

Noun

inbred (plural inbreds)

1. (vulgar) An inbred individual.

   Since you all marry your cousins I bet you're a bunch of inbreds.

Anagrams

• Binder, Birden, Bredin, bendir, binder, brined, rebind

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