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essential

English

  1. 🔊 basic and fundamental
    “the essential feature”
  2. 🔊 absolutely necessary
    “essential tools and materials”
  3. 🔊 being or relating to or containing the essence of a plant etc
    “essential oil”
  4. 🔊 defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established
    “substantive law”
  5. 🔊 of the greatest importance
    “the all-important subject of disarmament”
  6. 🔊 anything indispensable
    “food and shelter are necessities of life”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 esencial essential
  2. 🔊 principal essential

Similar words

necessity requirement requisite necessary substantive all-important(a) all important(p) crucial of the essence(p) indispensable ab ovo austere axiom bare bare necessities basal basic basilar bedrock bench mark brass tacks call for called for capital