Definitions for essential

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essential es·sen·tial

Spelling: [uh-sen-shuh l]

IPA: /əˈsɛn ʃəl/

Essential is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 555 anagrams from letters in essential (aeeilnsst).

Definitions for essential

noun

1. a basic, indispensable, or necessary element; chief point:

adjective

1. absolutely necessary; indispensable:
2. pertaining to or constituting the essence of a thing.
3. noting or containing an essence of a plant, drug, etc.
4. being such by its very nature or in the highest sense; natural; spontaneous:
5. Mathematics. (of a singularity of a function of a complex variable) noting that the Laurent series at the point has an infinite number of terms with negative powers. (of a discontinuity) noting that the function is discontinuous and has no limit at the point. Compare removable (def 2).

Origin of essential

1300-50; Middle English essencial Medieval Latin essenciālis for Late Latin essentiālis. See essence, -al¹

Examples for essential

Young Living traffics in essential oils designed to help relax and rejuvenate.

Built on fear and run by fear, fear is as essential to their existence as coal to our industries.

Law is essential to freedom because it safeguards citizens against misconduct and abuse.

I am not essential to them in any way, however essential they may be to me.

But Winning Marriage will be essential for the historian who, someday, tries to tell the full story.

A simple look around the Internet finds much to worry about in the world of essential oils.

I cannot perceive that our own comprehension of it is at all essential to the matter.

It is viewed in some of them as an essential prop to existing governments.

Dana Rubenstein of The New York Observer wrote that “essential to the experience was segregation.”

It is a test of our courage—of our resolve—of our wisdom—our essential democracy.