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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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.
What was vital was overlaid and hidden by what was irrelevant.
“All that I am saying has a very direct and vital bearing upon what you have called the Birlstone Mystery.
It’s a vital international problem that you have to solve.
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