essential
/ɪˈsɛn.ʃəl/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.61 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
Very important; of high importance.
adj
Necessary for survival but not synthesized by the organism, thus needing to be ingested.
adj
Being in the basic form; showing its essence.
adj
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.
adj
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Thus, research-based resources with the potential to assist teachers prepare secondary students for tertiary education are essential."
- "I see it as essential that there should be somewhere to park."
- "In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. Essential public services are cut so that the rich may pay less tax. […]"
- "Don’t mind him being grumpy. That’s the essential Fred."
- "Or is it true, that thou art but a bare name, / And no eſſential thing?"
Etymology
From Late Latin essentiālis, from Latin essentia (“being, essence”).
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: essentiālis, essentia
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɪˈsɛn.ʃəl/
- British English: /ɪˈsɛn.ʃəl/
Inflected Forms
more essential (comparative)
most essential (superlative)
essentiall (alternative)
essentials (plural)