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Adjective essential has 6 senses
- essential, indispensable - absolutely necessary; vitally necessary; "essential tools and materials"; "funds essential to the completion of the project"; "an indispensable worker"
Antonyms: unnecessary, unneeded (indirect, via necessary)
- essential - basic and fundamental; "the essential feature"
Antonyms: inessential, unessential, complemental, complementary, completing, incidental, nonessential
- all-important, all important, crucial, essential, of the essence - of the greatest importance; "the all-important subject of disarmament"; "crucial information"; "in chess cool nerves are of the essence"
Antonym: unimportant (indirect, via important)
- essential - being or relating to or containing the essence of a plant etc; "essential oil"
- substantive, essential - applying to essential legal principles and rules of right; "substantive law"
- essential - absolutely required and not to be used up or sacrificed
Antonym: expendable (indirect, via unexpendable)
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