Essential vs. Nonessential
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
Nonessentialadjective
Not required; not essential.
Nonessentialnoun
Something that is not essential.
Nonessentialadjective
Not essential.
Nonessentialnoun
A thing not essential.
Nonessentialnoun
anything that is not essential;
Nonessentialadjective
not of prime or central importance;
