Definition for Essential:

• ( law) applying to essential legal principles and rules of right; " substantive law"

Synonyms for Essential:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • indispensable.
  •basic, fundamental (adjective)
  • cold,
  • complete,
  • connate,
  • inbred,
  • material,
  • elementary,
  • substratal,
  • ideal,
  • elemental,
  • constitutional,
  • nub,
  • congenital,
  • key,
  • prime,
  • innate,
  • primary,
  • intrinsic,
  • nitty-gritty,
  • inborn,
  • basal,
  • quintessential,
  • primitive,
  • inherent,
  • underlying,
  • absolute,
  • perfect,
  • meat and potatoes,
  • deep-seated.
  •central (adjective)
  • nuclear.
  •existent (adjective)
  • extant,
  • existing,
  • ontological,
  • existent,
  • Subsistent,
  • present,
  • Subsisting,
  • real.
  •focal (adjective)
  • convergent,
  • key,
  • asymptotic,
  • nuclear,
  • central,
  • focal,
  • core.
  •important (adjective)
  • considerable,
  • newsworthy.
  •important, vital (adjective)
  • requisite,
  • principal,
  • right-hand,
  • main,
  • capital,
  • cardinal,
  • wanted,
  • prerequisite,
  • required,
  • needful,
  • indispensable,
  • constitutive,
  • fundamental,
  • necessary,
  • necessitous,
  • foremost,
  • imperative,
  • leading,
  • chief,
  • needed,
  • crucial.
  •included (adjective)
  • built-in.
  •in essence (adjective)
  • virtual.
  •instrumental (adjective)
  • instrumental,
  • valuable,
  • principle,
  • effectual,
  • helpful,
  • useful.
  •life-and-death (adjective)
  • of vital importance,
  • all-important,
  • earthshaking.
  •pure (adjective)
  • fundamental,
  • plain,
  • unblemished,
  • stainless,
  • decent,
  • faultless,
  • sinless,
  • pure,
  • unalloyed,
  • atomic,
  • clear,
  • aboriginal,
  • elemental,
  • simple,
  • guiltless,
  • prime,
  • nascent,
  • blameless,
  • angelic,
  • unadorned,
  • bare,
  • virtuous,
  • basal,
  • foundational,
  • formative,
  • uncluttered,
  • untainted,
  • undiluted,
  • honorable,
  • elementary,
  • austere,
  • indivisible,
  • undefiled,
  • spotless,
  • clean,
  • chaste,
  • primal,
  • irreducible,
  • unadulterated,
  • stark,
  • Simon-pure,
  • white,
  • monolithic,
  • innocent,
  • untarnished,
  • immaculate,
  • unsullied,
  • primary,
  • purebred,
  • basic.
  •required (adjective)
  • inevitable,
  • required,
  • pressing,
  • indispensable,
  • involuntary,
  • Stipulated,
  • prerequisite,
  • obligatory,
  • binding,
  • constraining,
  • proviso,
  • inescapable,
  • mandatory,
  • imperative,
  • requisite,
  • must,
  • necessary,
  • compulsory,
  • inexorable.

• n.

  •
  • sensible,
  • wholesome,
  • therapeutic,
  • healing,
  • healthy,
  • well-balanced.
  •
  • element,
  • feature,
  • essence,
  • quintessential,
  • basis.
  •
  • integral.
  •
  • underlying,
  • primitive,
  • ultimate.
  •
  • important,
  • needful.
  •condition (noun)
  • precondition,
  • sine qua non.
  •essential (noun)
  • in essence,
  • constituent,
  • primary,
  • constitutive,
  • no-frills,
  • of the essence,
  • all-important,
  • necessity,
  • requisite,
  • virtual,
  • substantial,
  • biogenic,
  • necessary,
  • requirement,
  • basic,
  • life-sustaining,
  • must,
  • constitutional,
  • organic,
  • staple,
  • basal,
  • vital,
  • substantive.
  •necessity, basic (noun)
  • must,
  • vital part,
  • substance,
  • guts,
  • principle,
  • where one's at,
  • stuff,
  • sine qua non,
  • abcs,
  • element,
  • Groceries,
  • heart,
  • quintessence,
  • essence,
  • fire and ice,
  • requirement,
  • rudiment,
  • condition,
  • precondition.
  •object (noun)
  • necessity,
  • requirement,
  • requisite,
  • necessary.
  •requirement (noun)
  • requirement.
  •rudiment (noun)
  • rudiment.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • fundamentally,
  • healthful,
  • integral,
  • principal,
  • stripped-down,
  • paradigmatic,
  • Elevating,
  • peculiar,
  • normally,
  • like,
  • time-honored,
  • historically,
  • stimulating,
  • urgent,
  • prototypical,
  • typical,
  • qualification,
  • therapeutic,
  • precondition,
  • advantageous,
  • wholesome,
  • usual,
  • profitable,
  • wonted,
  • accustomed,
  • traditional,
  • Civilizing,
  • mainline.
  •
  • healing,
  • element,
  • healthy,
  • classic,
  • underlying,
  • rudiment,
  • well-balanced,
  • state.
  •
  • primitive,
  • ultimate.
  •
  • sensible.
  •
  • condition.
  •distinctive
  • characteristic.
  •interior
  • inner.
  •necessary
  • have.
  •significant
  • meaningful.
  •Other relevant words:
  • highest,
  • alpha,
  • entity,
  • life-or-death,
  • volunteer,
  • extreme,
  • decreed,
  • operational,
  • constitutional,
  • considerable,
  • state,
  • demand,
  • critic,
  • deep,
  • threaten,
  • original,
  • mainline,
  • honest-to-goodness,
  • dictionary,
  • elixir,
  • precondition,
  • investigate,
  • principal,
  • prototypical,
  • indwelling,
  • preparatory,
  • inward,
  • deep-seated,
  • issue,
  • hulk,
  • set,
  • fatal,
  • curb,
  • Main Thing,
  • claim,
  • historic,
  • most important,
  • nearly,
  • hardwired,
  • pivotal,
  • hypostasis,
  • unequivocal,
  • in case,
  • tissue,
  • constituent,
  • inveterate,
  • operative,
  • excessively,
  • compelling,
  • deep-rooted,
  • rule,
  • desideratum,
  • exigent,
  • acquire,
  • bona fide,
  • groundwork,
  • established,
  • right-hand,
  • natural,
  • coerce,
  • nucleus,
  • nub,
  • get,
  • almost,
  • innate,
  • ingrained,
  • summarise,
  • backbone,
  • fate,
  • intrinsic,
  • lump,
  • want,
  • unembellished,
  • time-honored,
  • accepted,
  • engage,
  • catch,
  • first,
  • whole,
  • genuine,
  • introductory,
  • restrict,
  • greatly,
  • exceedingly,
  • intimate,
  • intrinsical,
  • gut,
  • term,
  • practicable,
  • critical point,
  • essential part,
  • wholesome,
  • marrow,
  • positive,
  • constraint,
  • constrain,
  • fact,
  • intensely,
  • most,
  • cold,
  • subjectiveness,
  • crux,
  • gist,
  • climax,
  • inner,
  • wanted,
  • healing,
  • homespun,
  • existence,
  • real issue,
  • ordained,
  • stripped-down,
  • earthshaking,
  • factor,
  • healthy,
  • stimulating,
  • ask,
  • nitty-gritty,
  • material,
  • substantiality,
  • true,
  • immanent,
  • foreordained,
  • occasion,
  • thing,
  • matter,
  • incarnation,
  • Necessities,
  • examine,
  • main part,
  • high point,
  • healthful,
  • embedded,
  • minimal,
  • inborn,
  • stipulation,
  • rudiment,
  • integral,
  • important,
  • lexical,
  • lion's share,
  • noumenon,
  • spirit,
  • earn,
  • biogenic,
  • urgent,
  • become,
  • promise,
  • quid,
  • often,
  • quiddity,
  • utilitarian,
  • historically,
  • in demand,
  • semantic,
  • irreplaceable,
  • ideal,
  • native,
  • leading,
  • article,
  • warranty,
  • bulk,
  • Rudimental,
  • truly,
  • typic,
  • unexpendable,
  • segment,
  • necessity,
  • rooted,
  • capital,
  • qualification,
  • basis,
  • crisis,
  • genetous,
  • in operation,
  • synopsis,
  • Civilizing,
  • practically,
  • ought to,
  • bring,
  • agreement,
  • specification,
  • serious,
  • initial,
  • meagre,
  • constitutive,
  • needed,
  • predestined,
  • compulsion,
  • vastly,
  • abcs,
  • heart,
  • predominant,
  • objective,
  • law,
  • inherited,
  • understood,
  • thorough,
  • dominant,
  • pure and simple,
  • substratum,
  • ineluctable,
  • called for,
  • final,
  • cornerstone,
  • organic,
  • thoroughly,
  • axiom,
  • entrenched,
  • uncomplicated,
  • center,
  • induce,
  • determinative,
  • inherent,
  • want to,
  • crucial,
  • life-and-death,
  • actual,
  • essentialness,
  • substantive,
  • meat,
  • Corporeity,
  • no-frills,
  • honest-to-god,
  • unquestionable,
  • person,
  • life-sustaining,
  • decided,
  • ceremonious,
  • denotative,
  • meat and potatoes,
  • perfect,
  • substance,
  • kernel,
  • Self-existent,
  • firm,
  • virtual,
  • importance,
  • newsworthy,
  • send,
  • unavoidable,
  • substratal,
  • in the grain,
  • chief part,
  • very,
  • profound,
  • homogeneous,
  • Demanded,
  • Gravamen,
  • syngenic,
  • usual,
  • prominent part,
  • meaningful,
  • virtually,
  • like,
  • Indicated,
  • undifferenced,
  • abecedarian,
  • littlest,
  • effective,
  • weight,
  • Overruling,
  • trump card,
  • undifferentiated,
  • sum and substance,
  • sine qua non,
  • literal,
  • Imbedded,
  • flower,
  • keystone,
  • main,
  • high-priority,
  • special,
  • important part,
  • inherence,
  • element,
  • congenital,
  • single,
  • needful,
  • approximate,
  • guts,
  • absolute,
  • severe,
  • simplistic,
  • detail,
  • need,
  • fated,
  • base,
  • Instilled,
  • particular,
  • born,
  • smallest,
  • necessitate,
  • Ingenerate,
  • predetermined,
  • something,
  • primitive,
  • hold,
  • serviceable,
  • destined,
  • covenant,
  • proper,
  • device,
  • pith,
  • scanty,
  • object,
  • fire and ice,
  • scant,
  • of import,
  • trunk,
  • hereditary,
  • cardinal point,
  • nigh,
  • persuade,
  • landmark,
  • major,
  • cardinal,
  • thoroughgoing,
  • unbiased,
  • Engrained,
  • ego,
  • typical,
  • profitable,
  • salt,
  • sensible,
  • fundamentally,
  • ask for,
  • all,
  • peculiar,
  • substantial,
  • major part,
  • chief,
  • Groceries,
  • undertaking,
  • structural,
  • too,
  • settled,
  • creature,
  • root,
  • rudimentary,
  • vital,
  • ab ovo,
  • visceral,
  • traditional,
  • bench mark,
  • Intrinsicality,
  • really,
  • all-important,
  • critical,
  • grave,
  • subjective,
  • requirement,
  • lifeblood,
  • piece,
  • paramount,
  • essential facts,
  • instinctive,
  • centre,
  • quintessence,
  • chief thing,
  • essentials,
  • genuinely,
  • mass,
  • simple-minded,
  • wonted,
  • provision,
  • Inhesion,
  • thoroughbred,
  • ultimate,
  • preordained,
  • point,
  • component,
  • materiality,
  • have,
  • unit,
  • Inbeing,
  • guarantee,
  • momentous,
  • homely,
  • advantageous,
  • hull,
  • seminal,
  • staple,
  • part,
  • milestone,
  • given,
  • turning point,
  • torso,
  • fixed,
  • attain,
  • vital part,
  • working,
  • prototypic,
  • decisive,
  • foremost,
  • etymological,
  • Elevating,
  • confine,
  • unprejudiced,
  • focus,
  • basilar,
  • pre-eminent,
  • of a piece,
  • soul,
  • clause,
  • significant,
  • gain,
  • incumbent,
  • therapeutic,
  • bedrock,
  • fateful,
  • urge,
  • top-priority,
  • item,
  • compel,
  • awfully,
  • acute,
  • body,
  • built-in,
  • determinant,
  • inwrought,
  • is necessary,
  • of vital importance,
  • Desideration,
  • highly,
  • quintessential,
  • Compages,
  • underlying,
  • would like,
  • radical,
  • beginning,
  • well-balanced,
  • requisition,
  • functioning,
  • normal,
  • essence,
  • finished,
  • Necessaries,
  • connate,
  • unvarnished,
  • duty,
  • in essence,
  • exhort,
  • condition,
  • supreme,
  • almost all,
  • incarnate,
  • feature,
  • sap,
  • obligation,
  • ingredient,
  • require,
  • best part,
  • relevant,
  • characteristic,
  • press,
  • paradigmatic,
  • Commanded,
  • mere,
  • greater part,
  • postulate,
  • principal part,
  • call for,
  • complete,
  • fast,
  • uniform,
  • implanted,
  • restrain,
  • keynote,
  • Ingenite,
  • inbred,
  • chronic,
  • stuff,
  • where one's at,
  • weighty,
  • indigenous,
  • pivot,
  • accustomed,
  • spare,
  • practical,
  • of the essence,
  • crave,
  • classic,
  • being,
  • enforced,
  • normally,
  • bole,
  • substantialness,
  • internal,
  • main point,
  • Congenite,
  • prototypal,
  • necessitous.

Antonyms for Essential:

• adj.

  • all
    inessential.
  • basic, fundamental
    flawed, extrinsic, imperfect, acquired, learned, incidental, wrong, insignificant.
  • important, vital
    inferior, inessential, unnecessary, auxiliary, unimportant, needless, atypical, trivial, subsidiary, minor, extra, optional, nonessential, secondary, voluntary, accessory, subordinate.
  • Other antonyms:
    extensive, Evolved, complicated, refined, exterior, complex, supplemental, convoluted, subsidiary, higher, advanced, surface, intricate, developed, sophisticated, surplus, elaborate, procedural, superficial, unconnected, outward, Superadded, superfluous, superimposed, detailed, fortuitous, coincidental, undesired, unwanted, extra, high, casual, acquired, unneeded, transient, excess.

• n.

  • necessity, basic
    fear, throwaway, trivia, cowardice.
  • object
    inessential.

Homophones for Essential:

• essentially, egg noodle, essential oil.

Hypernym for Essential:

• n.

  • object
    must, need, want, desideratum.

Hyponym for Essential:

• n.

  • object
    thing.