Vital

Adjective

 * 1) Relating to, or characteristic of life.
 * 2) Necessary to the continuation of life; being the seat of life; being that on which life depends.
 * The brain is a vital organ.
 * 1) Invigorating or life-giving.
 * The sun’s vital radiation.
 * 1) Necessary to continued existence.
 * The transition to farming was vital for the creation of civilisation.
 * 1) Relating to the recording of life events.
 * Birth, marriage and death certificates are vital records.
 * 1) Important
 * It is vital that you don't forget to do your homework.

Derived terms

 * vital force
 * vital organ


 * vital signs
 * vital statistics

Related terms

 * devive
 * revive
 * survive
 * viable
 * vitality
 * vivid

Adverbs for Vital
obviously; indisputably; clearly; admittedly; curiously; strangely; significantly; particularly; absolutely; fundamentally; palpably; manifestly; remarkably.

Thesaurus
abiding, aboveground, acid, age-long, aged, agog, alacritous, alive, alive and kicking, all agog, among the living, ancient, animate, animated, animating, antic, antique, anxious, armipotent, authoritative, avid, bang, basic, bedrock, biological, biotic, biting, bouncing, breathing, breathless, brisk, bursting to, called for, capable of life, capersome, cardinal, central, chronic, cogent, coltish, compulsory, conscious, constant, constitutive, continuing, corrosive, critical, crucial, cutting, desirous, diuturnal, drive, driving, durable, dynamic, eager, effective, endowed with life, enduring, energetic, enlivened, enlivening, essential, evergreen, existent, exuberant, flush, focal, forceful, forcible, forward, frisky, frolicsome, full of beans, full of life, fundamental, gamesome, gay, getup, gutsy, hale, hale and hearty, hardy, hearty, high-potency, high-powered, high-pressure, high-tension, immutable, impatient, imperative, important, impressive, in force, in power, in the flesh, incisive, indicated, indispensable, inspirited, instinct with life, integral, intransient, inveterate, invigorating, irreducible, irreductible, irreplaceable, irresistible, keen, key, lasting, life-and-death, life-giving, life-or-death, live, lively, living, long-lasting, long-lived, long-standing, long-term, longeval, longevous, lusty, macrobiotic, main, mandatory, material, mighty, mighty in battle, mordant, necessary, needed, needful, nervous, of long duration, of long standing, of vital importance, operative, organic, organized, panting, paramount, penetrating, perdurable, perduring, perennial, permanent, perpetual, persistent, persisting, physiological, piercing, pivotal, playful, poignant, potent, powerful, prepotent, prerequisite, prompt, puissant, punchy, quick, quickening, raring to, ready, ready and willing, red-blooded, rejuvenating, remaining, required, requisite, reviving, robust, robustious, robustuous, rollicking, rollicksome, rompish, rude, rugged, ruling, sempervirent, sensational, sinewed, sinewy, skittish, slashing, spirited, sportive, sprightly, stable, stalwart, staying, steadfast, stout, strenuous, striking, strong, sturdy, substantive, telling, tenacious of life, tough, trenchant, unfading, unforgoable, valid, very much alive, viable, vigorous, vim, vitality, vitalizing, vivacious, vivid, vivified, vivifying, wanted, zestful, zippy, zoetic

Etymology
From <  <  vitalis: < vita: < vivo:.

Translations

 * Arabic: (’asási)
 * Catalan: vital
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 生命
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: vitaali, elin-
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German: lebenswichtig


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 絶対に必要な (ぜったいにひつような, zettai ni hitsuyō na)
 * Korean: 생명의 (saengmyeong-ui)
 * Latin:
 * Norwegian:, livsviktig
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:


 * Catalan: vital
 * Finnish: elintärkeä, elämälle välttämätön
 * Galician:
 * Norwegian: livsoppholdende


 * Russian: жизненно важный, насущный,
 * Swedish: livsviktig


 * Catalan: vital
 * Finnish: elintärkeä
 * Latin:


 * Norwegian: livsoppholdende
 * Russian: жизвотворный


 * Catalan: vital
 * Finnish:
 * Norwegian: livsviktig


 * Russian: жизненно важный, насущный,


 * Catalan: vital
 * Finnish: elämäkerrallinen


 * Norwegian:
 * Russian: демографический


 * Catalan: vital
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 重要
 * Finnish: tärkeä, olennainen
 * Galician:


 * Korean: 중요한 (Jung Yo-han)
 * Norwegian: kjempeviktig
 * Russian: жизненно важный, насущный,

Adjective

 * 1) vital

Etymology
From vitalis:.

Adjective

 * 1) vital (relating to, or characteristic of life)
 * 2) vital, important, necessary

Etymology
From vitalis:.

Related terms

 * vida
 * vitalidade

Adjective

 * 1) vital

Related terms

 * vitalidad