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vital
adjective as in essential
Strongest matches
basic, critical, crucial, decisive, fundamental, imperative, important, indispensable, integral, key, meaningful, necessary, needed, significant, urgent
Weak matches
bottom-line, cardinal, coal-and-ice, constitutive, heavy, life-or-death, meat-and-potatoes, must-have, nitty-gritty, prerequisite, required, requisite, underlined
adjective as in lively
adjective as in alive
Weak matches
animate, animated, breathing, generative, invigorative, life-giving, live, living, quickening
Example Sentences
She said that alongside vital training for teachers, there are also practical measures a school can put in place such as the option to "skip certain lessons depending on the topics".
John Prescott was an old-style political bruiser who played a vital role in the New Labour project.
Most importantly, streamlining the carbon capture process helps reframe what scientists know about the carbon cycle, and is a vital step to setting up more complex strategies for faster and more efficient climate mitigation technologies.
For Beijing, scrambling to meet rapidly growing electricity demand, nuclear had, and still has, a vital role to play.
Capturing methane, a greenhouse gas over 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide in the short term, is vital for combating climate change.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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