vital
/ˈvaɪtəl/ adjective B2- Relating to or characteristic of life. · vital energies; vital functions; vital actions
- Necessary to the continuation of life; being the seat of life; being that on which life depends. · The brain is a vital organ.
- Invigorating or life-giving.
- Necessary to continued existence. · The transition to farming was vital for the creation of civilisation.
- Relating to the recording of life events. · Birth, marriage and death certificates are vital records.
- Very important. · It is vital that you don't forget to do your homework.
- Containing life; living.
- Lively, having vitality
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They are, as I understand, the vital ones.”
It was full of a new vital, pulsing personality that seemed to pervade it and to be quite independent of schoolgirl books and dresses and ribbons, and even of the cracked blue jug full of apple blossoms on the table.
“All that I am saying has a very direct and vital bearing upon what you have called the Birlstone Mystery.
Alas, it is not the death of the body I regret; for is not the destruction of the vital principle, the repose to which everything is tending, to which every unhappy being aspires,—is not this the repose of matter after which I so long sighed, and which I was seeking to attain by the painful process of starvation when Faria appeared in my dungeon?
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