Word Finder - vital

definition

Relating to, or characteristic of life.

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vital energies; vital functions; vital actions

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• lifely

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

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The brain is a vital organ.

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Invigorating or life-giving.

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Necessary to continued existence.

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The transition to farming was vital for the creation of civilisation.

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Relating to the recording of life events.

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Birth, marriage and death certificates are vital records.

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Very important.

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It is vital that you don't forget to do your homework.

synonyms

• crucial
• necessary
• significant

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Containing life; living.

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• extant
• kicking
• live

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

You're a vital asset and the director knows it.

What we're accomplishing with Howie is vital; we can't stop doing it.

You… you're meant to maintain a vital balance in this world.

Of far more vital importance is the conception of Israel as God's suffering servant.

How can a man be a philosopher and not maintain his vital heat by better methods than other men?

Vital force is only an expression for the unknown remainder over and above what we know of the essence of life.

But until death came she had to go on living, that is, to use her vital forces.

As if it were no particular problem, he said they had lost vital signs in flight a couple times.

Of course the vital heat is not to be confounded with fire; but so much for analogy.

The mechanism of life, the arrangement of the day so as to be in time everywhere, absorbed the greater part of his vital energy.

The result is dulness of sight, a stagnation of the vital circulations, and a general deliquium and sloughing off of all the intellectual faculties.

The grand necessity, then, for our bodies, is to keep warm, to keep the vital heat in us.

If you want to show expertise, consistent practice is vital.

The question is, however, vital to the atomic theory.

I lingered most about the fireplace, as the most vital part of the house.

The organism is largely dependent for its vital processes upon gaseous interchanges.

Within it or its modifications all the vital phenomena of which living organisms are capable have their origin.

All this is only the coincidence of conditions in which all vital organic and elemental events occur.

For the rest, his theory is chiefly important as emphasizing the vital character of the original substance.

To Aristotle the whole of nature is instinct with a vital impulse towards some higher manifestation.

For many people the helpline is a vital lifeline.

Theists, on the other hand, will contend that the distinctiveness of moral necessity is vital to religion.

A detailed plan for the entire rapid is vital when facing the holes, drops, haystacks, rocks and chutes served up by even the most diminutive river.

It is true that in the unicellular plants all the vital activities are performed by a single cell, but in the multicellular plants there is a more or less highly developed differentiation of physiological activity giving rise to different tissues or groups of cells, each with a special function.

In our own day we have had many illustrations of the manner in which special circumstances may at once bring an almost unnoticed series of scientific investigations into direct and vital relation with the business world.

At this time there existed a belief, held at a later date by Berzelius, Gmelin and many others, that the formation of organic compounds was conditioned by a so-called vital force; and the difficulty of artificially realizing this action explained the supposed impossibility of synthesizing organic compounds.

But wherever theocratic organizations established themselves slavery in the ordinary sense did not become a vital element in the social system.

Turkey was at this time the only neutral state in Europe; it was of vital im- Treaty of portance that she should not be absorbed into the Napoleonic system, as in that case Russia would have been exposed to a simultaneous attack from France, Austria, Turkey and Persia.

He seemed unaware of the vital importance of the moment, crouched shivering over a bivouac fire, and finally rode back to Dresden, leaving no specific orders for the further pursuit.

This treaty contains reservations of all questions involving the vital interests, the independence or the honour of the contracting parties.

Some of these differences may be slight, while others may be vital, or (which amounts to the same thing) may seem to the parties to be so.

The theory of probabilities, which Laplace described as common sense expressed in mathematical language, engaged his attention from its importance in physics and astronomy; and he applied his theory, not only to the ordinary problems of chances, but also to the inquiry into the causes of phenomena, vital statistics and future events.

The fact it's clandestine is vital.

But his limited resources, and, above all, the proved incapacity of the militia in the field, compelled him instantly to take in hand the vital question of army reform.

The facts of the relationships of animals to one another, which had been treated as the outcome of an inscrutable law by most zoologists and glibly explained by the transcendental morphologists, were amongst the most powerful arguments in support of Darwin's theory, since they, together with all other vital phenomena, received a sufficient explanation through it.

As has been said, a large proportion of water enters into the composition of all living matter; a certain amount of drying arrests vital activity, and the complete abstraction The properties of living matter are intimately related to temperature.

Final causes, vital and mental forces, the soul itself can, if they act at all, only act through the inexorable mechanism of natural laws.

This is the so-called c narion, or pineal gland, where in a minimized point the mind on one hand and the vital spirits on the other meet and communicate.

But, on the other hand, the vital spirits cause a movement in the gland by which the mind perceives the affection of the organs, learns that something is to be loved or hated, admired or shunned.

He showed that all the organs of plants are built up of cells, that the plant embryo originates from a single cell, and that the physiological activities of the plant are dependent upon the individual activities of these vital units.

This conception of,the plant as an aggregate or colony of independent vital units governing the nutrition, growth and reproduction of the whole cannot, however, be maintained.

Foremost among these was Ilayyim Vital, author of the 'Ez hayyim, and his son Samuel, who wrote an introduction to the Kabbalah, called Shemoneh She`arim.

These lectures reveal all the charm of style and directness of presentation which made Hausser's work as a professor so vital.

It is vital to understand the real differences of experience within Britain's black communities.

They also analyze proposed legislation, a vital factor in early recognition of a rule that could seriously imperil our right to ride.

It illustrates well how energetic and vital, and how fruitful, is much of the debate in contemporary metaphysics.

To add to the mayhem, is the total neglect of vital micronutrients so essential to the release of energy from bodily stores.

Crewe's left-sided midfielder David Vaughan looks set to miss the vital six-pointer against Brighton & Hove Albion this coming Saturday.

Yet her need to reach the car was vital.

The mechanical laws, to which external things were subject, were conceived as being valid only in the inorganic world; in the organic and mental worlds these mechanical laws were conceived as being disturbed or overridden by other powers, such as the influence of final causes, the existence of types, the work of vital and mental forces.