Canadian English Meaning of essential

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Definitions and Meaning of essential in English

Wordnet

essential (n)

anything indispensable

Wordnet

essential (s)

absolutely necessary; vitally necessary

of the greatest importance

Wordnet

essential (a)

basic and fundamental

being or relating to or containing the essence of a plant etc

defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established

Webster

essential (a.)

Belonging to the essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is.

Hence, really existing; existent.

Important in the highest degree; indispensable to the attainment of an object; indispensably necessary.

Containing the essence or characteristic portion of a substance, as of a plant; highly rectified; pure; hence, unmixed; as, an essential oil.

Necessary; indispensable; -- said of those tones which constitute a chord, in distinction from ornamental or passing tones.

Idiopathic; independent of other diseases.

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essential

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