English-French translations for essential

• essentiel
  Quels sont les points essentiels? What are the essential points?
  Premier point essentiel, les délais. First essential point, deadlines.
  Les questions essentielles sont claires. The essential questions are clear.
• fondamental
  Il est fondamental d'entreprendre une importante tâche d'analyse. A serious task of analysis is essential.
  Dans l' état actuel des choses, cet objectif est fondamental. This objective is essential at this time.
  Voilà donc, pour l'essentiel, le principe fondamental. So essentially this is the core principle.
• indispensable
  Une assistance extérieure paraît dès lors indispensable. Outside help now appears essential.
  Elle a joué un rôle utile, indispensable même. It played a useful, even essential role.
  Perfectible, mais indispensable. Not perfect, but an essential first step.
• nécessaire
  Cela était nécessaire et indispensable. It was both necessary and essential.
  Voilà ce qui est tout aussi nécessaire. These are matters which are essential.
  Pour ma part, je considère une telle identification comme nécessaire. But I feel that this really is essential.

Definition of essential

• Necessary
• Very important; of high importance
• for survival but not by the organism, thus needing to be ingested
• Really existing; existent
• 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
• Idiopathic
• A necessary ingredient

Examples

• Don’t mind him being grumpy. That’s the essential Fred

Related words

• essentially
• essentialism
• quintessential
• essentials
• nonessential
• inessential
• coessential
• essentialist
• unessential