Essential vs. Desirable

Essentialadjective

Necessary.

Essentialadjective

Very important; of high importance.

Essentialadjective

(biology) necessary for survival but not synthesized by the organism, thus needing to be ingested

Essentialadjective

Being in the basic form; showing its essence.

Essentialadjective

Really existing; existent.

Essentialadjective

(of a lamination of a 3-manifold) 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.

Essentialadjective

(medicine) Idiopathic.

Essentialnoun

A necessary ingredient.

Essentialnoun

A fundamental ingredient.

Essentialadjective

Belonging to the essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is.

Essentialadjective

Hence, really existing; existent.

Essentialadjective

Important in the highest degree; indispensable to the attainment of an object; indispensably necessary.

Essentialadjective

Containing the essence or characteristic portion of a substance, as of a plant; highly rectified; pure; hence, unmixed; as, an essential oil.

Essentialadjective

Necessary; indispensable; - said of those tones which constitute a chord, in distinction from ornamental or passing tones.

Essentialadjective

Idiopathic; independent of other diseases.

Essentialnoun

Existence; being.

Essentialnoun

That which is essential; first or constituent principle; as, the essentials of religion.

Essentialnoun

anything indispensable;

Essentialadjective

absolutely necessary; vitally necessary;

Essentialadjective

basic and fundamental;

Essentialadjective

of the greatest importance;

Essentialadjective

being or relating to or containing the essence of a plant etc;

Essentialadjective

applying to essential legal principles and rules of right;

Essentialadjective

absolutely required and not to be used up or sacrificed

Desirableadjective

Worthy to be desired; pleasing; agreeable.

Desirablenoun

A thing that people want; something that is desirable.

Desirableadjective

Worthy of desire or longing; fitted to excite desire or a wish to possess; pleasing; agreeable.

Desirableadjective

worth having or seeking or achieving;

Desirableadjective

worthy of being chosen especially as a spouse;

Desirableadjective

wished for as being an attractive, useful, or necessary course of action

Desirableadjective

(of a person) arousing sexual desire

Desirablenoun

a desirable person or thing