Synonyms for vital
- adjective
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Essential — very important
essential, important, crucial, critical, indispensable, necessary, paramount, key, pivotal, significant, main, life-and-death, central, material, grave, organic
2. Alive — containing life; living
alive, living, live, alive and kicking, animate, animated, extant, lively dated, quick dated, kicking slang, vitalic dated
Other
lifely rare
Definitions
- adj. 1
Very important.
It is vital that you don't forget to do your homework.
- adj. 2
Containing life; living.
Related words
- Word family
- vitalic vitalize vitalization vitalness vitality vitals
- Phrases
- vital force élan vital vital spark vital organ vital signs
Example sentences
- critical I can't understand why you are so critical of him.
- essential Selfishness is an essential part of his character.
- crucial Past papers are crucial for good exam preparation.
- indispensable Nothing in this world is so indispensable as love.
- alive Everybody knows for a fact that he is still alive.
- extant The hippopotamus is the heaviest extant artiodactyl.
By length
- 3 letters
- key1
- 4 letters
- live1, main1
- 5 letters
- quick1, alive2, grave1
- 6 letters
- living2, lively2, extant2, lifely
- 7 letters
- central2, organic3, crucial2, kicking2, pivotal3, animate3, vitalic
- 8 letters
- material4, critical3, animated4
- 9 letters
- important3, necessary4, essential3, paramount3
- 11 letters
- significant4
- 13 letters
- indispensable5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (alive2 = 2 syllables).