Vital

Word VITAL
Character 5
Hyphenation vi tal
Pronunciations /ˈvaɪt̬əl/

Definitions and meanings of "Vital"

What do we mean by vital?

Of, relating to, or characteristic of life: synonym: living. adjective

Necessary to the continuation of life; life-sustaining. adjective

Used or done on a living cell or tissue. adjective

Concerned with or recording data pertinent to lives. adjective

Full of life or energy; animated. adjective

Necessary to continued existence or effectiveness. adjective

Extremely important; essential. adjective

Destructive to life; fatal. adjective

Of or pertaining to life, either animal or vegetable: as, vital energies.

Contributing to life; necessary to life: as,vital air; vital blood.

Containing life; living.

Being the seat of life; being that on which life, depends; hence, essential to existence; indispensable.

Capable of living; viable.

Belonging or relating to life, either animal or vegetable adjective

Contributing to life; necessary to, or supporting, life. adjective

Containing life; living. adjective

Being the seat of life; being that on which life depends; mortal. adjective

Very necessary; highly important; essential. adjective

Relating to, or characteristic of life.

Necessary to the continuation of life; being the seat of life; being that on which life depends.

Invigorating or life-giving.

Necessary to continued existence.

Relating to the recording of life events.

Very important.

Containing life; living.

Capable of living; in a state to live; viable.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Vital

The word "vital" in example sentences

The geologic records attest the fact, as well as the ever-acting vital law; and it is enough for us to know, with sturdy old Richard Hooker, that all law -- and especially all _vital_ law -- "has her seat in the bosom of God, and her voice is the harmony of the world." ❋ R. W. Wright (N/A)

If I love my mother, it is because there is established between me and her a direct, powerful circuit of vital magnetism, call it what you will, but a direct flow of dynamic _vital_ interchange and intercourse. ❋ Unknown (1907)

But if religion is not consciously vital to the Filipinos, as they themselves would conceive and act on it (and I make the assertion in the assumption that the reader understands as I do by _consciously vital_ that for which the individual or the race is willing to die singly or collectively), the unprejudiced observer must admit that it is vital to their ultimate evolution, vital in just the sense that any function is vital to one who is in need of it. ❋ Mary Helen Fee (N/A)

Is it a fact that the only significance to the term vital is that we have not yet been able to explain these processes to our entire satisfaction? ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Maybe the term vital organ also incorporates such things as bone marrow.

Obama says increasing government revenue through tax hikes would prevent the need to cut what he called vital programs such as student loans, medical research and government healthcare for elderly Americans. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I am somewhat startled at what you define as vital dimensions, since to me it seems like you strongly derive them from your own preferences which might be culturally influenced and thus might lead you to have a lower utility from the things on offer in European countries than the average European who will have preferences for other things than those you define as vital. ❋ Unknown (2009)

CLANCY: U.S. President Bush urging senators to pass what he calls a vital bill today. ❋ Unknown (2006)

I don't know if it has anything to do with it, but there had been before, a massive campaign on the part of -- humanitarian groups and aid groups saying how dire the situation would be for the Iraqi population if those facilities, what they call vital facilities, electricity, power plants, water treatment plants, were to be hit. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The Ngobeni commission into allegations that Mpumalanga deputy speaker, Cynthia Maropeng abused her position to enrich herself cancelled its scheduled hearings on Thursday night after receiving what it called vital new evidence. ❋ Unknown (1998)

And breathed into his nostrils [114] Whatever the greater part of the ancients might think, I do not hesitate to subscribe to the opinion of those who explain this passage of the animal life of man; and thus I expound what they call the vital spirits by the word breath. ❋ 1509-1564 (1996)

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