vital for
12
3.9
- idiom
:
vital para
- All are viewed as vital for providing a quality education to the students.
- vital for success
- vital for survival
- vital for the future
Getting enough calcium in your diet is vital for optimal health.
- Getting enough calcium in your diet is vital for optimal health.
- So potassium is vital for nerves to conduct efficiently.
- So all of them are able to pump out chemicals all the time that are vital for our body.
- And those other two structures, the prefrontal cortex and the hippocampus, are vital for learning.
- All this stuff is vital for optimized health and so I think you'll you'll enjoy this.
- These kind of things are necessary and for us as a production company, you know, are vital for our continued existence.
Examples
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So just like diet and exercise are vital for human health, implementation and innovation are vital for the health of our planet.
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Maintaining an optimum level of attention is vital for safe driving.
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Was it absolutely vital for her to tell us that?
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These kind of things are necessary and for us as a production company, you know, are vital for our continued existence.
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Prime Minister, the tourism sector has, is absolutely vital for our country and the faster we can get it open, the better.
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Connections to the past are vital for an individual and for a nation.
Academic text (1994) -
Its prosperity and tax revenue is vital for the whole United Kingdom.
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It's vital for a lecture I have planned.
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Its mission is to preserve land vital for soil conservation, water quality protection, and wildlife habitat.
Academic text (2001) -
Getting enough calcium in your diet is vital for optimal health.
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
403
3.5
Necessary for life or for something to succeed
84
4.9
Very important for the success of something
48
4.6
Needed so much you cannot do without it or them
45
6.7
More important than anything else
24
4.0
Very necessary for a decision or success
Very important and needed for something to work or survive
Antonyms
How Vital
48
4.6
12
3.9
469
3.6
947
1.0
300
1.6
- Formal
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'absolutely necessary or extremely important with respect to something' is directly and compositionally derived from 'vital' (necessary) combined with the preposition 'for' indicating the target or purpose. This adjective + preposition pattern is a common, cross-linguistic way to mark what something is necessary for, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand the phrase.
Etymology
Vital for comes from an old word meaning 'life' and gives a clear picture: something like the heart or water that keeps life going. So we use vital for to say something is 'absolutely necessary'.