Definitions for vital

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vital vi·tal

Spelling: [vahyt-l]

IPA: /ˈvaɪt l/

Vital is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 70 anagrams from letters in vital (ailtv).

Definitions for vital

adjective

1. of or relating to life:
2. having remarkable energy, liveliness, or force of personality:
3. being the seat or source of life:
4. necessary to life:
5. necessary to the existence, continuance, or well-being of something; indispensable; essential:
6. affecting the existence, well-being, truth, etc., of something:
7. of critical importance:
8. destructive to life; deadly:

plural noun

1. those bodily organs that are essential to life, as the brain, heart, liver, lungs, and stomach.
2. the essential parts of something:

Origin of vital

1350-1400; Middle English Latin vītālis, equivalent to vīt(a) life (derivative of vīvere to live; akin to Greek bíesthai, Sanskrit jīvati (he) lives, English quick)

Examples for vital

His ups and downs professionally outside of the World Cup are a vital a part of his story in the book.

vital Voices in 2013 took over funds from the Women In The World foundation which originated at The Daily Beast.

America's vital interests and our deepest beliefs are now one.

This argument is vital to a larger argument: Do we obey the rules set up to constrain government or not?

In terms of transparency, the U.K. has taken a vital step forward by openly quantifying the extent of the situation.

It is not easy for an Anglo-Saxon to confess the realities of affection in vital intimacies.

After all it might be nothing of vital importance, merely a girls' disagreement.

To the Roman, the scenic and histrionic were the vital features of a production.

Your National Government has a great and vital role to play.

“The influence of the oak maturation casks on the final character of The Macallan is vital,” says MacPherson.