Sekirov Dictionary

essential

/ɪˈsɛn.ʃəl/

adjective 8
noun 2
forms 3

adjective8

•
completely necessary and not to be left out
- There’s canker at the root, your seed Denies the blessing of the sun, The light essential to your need. Your hopes are murdered and undone. — 1941
•
Very important; of high importance.
- I see it as essential that there should be somewhere to park.
Necessary for survival but not synthesized by the organism, thus needing to be ingested.
•
Being in the basic form; showing its essence.
- Don’t mind him being grumpy. That’s the essential Fred.
Idiopathic.
Having the nature of essence; not physical.
•
Really existing; existent.
- Or is it true, that thou art but a bare name, / And no essential thing? — 1612
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.

noun2

A necessary ingredient.
A fundamental ingredient.

forms

essentials · more essential · most essential

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