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Meaning of essential | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2 Standard
ɪˈsɛn.ʃəl

Definitions

  1. fundamental
  2. Necessary.
  3. Very important; of high importance.
  4. Necessary for survival but not synthesized by the organism, thus needing to be ingested.
  5. Being in the basic form; showing its essence.
  6. Really existing; existent.
  7. 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.
  8. Idiopathic.
  9. Having the nature of essence; not physical.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”
“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?”
“essential blepharospasm”
“It is usually allowed that there is the natural body, as St. Paul called it, which is dissolved at death, and the etheric or spiritual body which survives and functions upon an etheric plane. Those are the essential things. But we may really have as many coats as an onion and there may be a mental body which may shed itself at any spot where great mental or emotional strain has been experienced.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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