vital
403
3.5
- adjective
- /ˈvaɪtəl/
:
vital
- The patient's presenting symptoms and history play a vital part in pointing to a diagnosis.
- a vital role
- play a vital role
- a vital interest
The quantity of jobs remains vital, but quality matters too.
- The quantity of jobs remains vital, but quality matters too.
- It's sort of, I mean denying A vital part of being human.
- Let's replicate that with this vital area of social work.
- It doesn't answer all questions, but it's a vital tool for everybody to learn.
- He's also highlighted why it is just so vital that menus should be explicit.
- We play an absolutely vital role in what we believe we see.
- So I said your life's more vital than your work.
- Its goals are ambitious and vital to the future success of Radcliffe Institute.
- I think integrity, it's so it's so vital to who you are as an artist.
- So something new, something fresh is absolutely vital when keeping the relationship fresh and new.
- But curiosity is such a vital ingredient and it comes free.
- They're really vital to our sense of connectivity and community.
- So this is both vital biological and clinical data.
- For the record, one of my vital, vital instruments that I need in life.
- Like, why did you, you know, make you know an entire vital sign chapter on squatting?
Examples
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This information is absolutely vital to patients in the long run.
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Learning, questioning and research are vital elements of progression.
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We play an absolutely vital role in what we believe we see.
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Here at the beach, this vital part of our culture has been taken away.
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The quantity of jobs remains vital, but quality matters too.
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Both schools place an emphasis on the vital role played by free markets.
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Case management in health care is an increasingly vital component in the delivery of health services.
Academic text (2008) -
However, in recommended quantities, salt has a vital role to play in maintaining health.
Academic text (2012) -
Pausing to assess and attend to these factors is a vital step in successful change.
Academic text (2015) -
The patient's presenting symptoms and history play a vital part in pointing to a diagnosis.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
A person or thing that matters a lot
∞
2.0
Very important for something to work or succeed
917
4.0
Very important at a dangerous or decisive moment
536
3.5
Very important and necessary for something to work
469
3.6
Very important for the success or result of something
84
4.9
Very important for the success of something
48
4.6
Needed so much you cannot do without it or them
46
6.2
Most basic and needed for life
28
6.2
Needed for a particular purpose
24
4.0
Very necessary for a decision or success
22
5.3
Very important and needed right away
5
3.9
Needed for a person to stay alive
Very important and needed for something to work or survive
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
41
2.4
Measurements like heart rate or blood pressure that show how well the body is working
- Formal
2
4.3
Official numbers the government collects about births, deaths, marriages, and health
How Vital
Surface Forms
Morphology
vital = vit + al
The root 'vit' is a Latin combining form (life) and not a standalone English word, so an average B1 learner cannot derive the meaning from component parts despite the productive adjectival suffix '-al'.
Etymology
Vital comes from the Latin root vita meaning 'life'. So something vital is needed for life, which is why we call the heart or breathing a vital organ or a vital sign.