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Essential vs Crying - What's the difference?

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Essential is a related term of crying.


As adjectives the difference between essential and crying

is that essential is necessary while crying is that demands action or attention.

As nouns the difference between essential and crying

is that essential is a necessary ingredient while crying is action of the verb cry .

As a verb crying is

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essential

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Necessary.
  • Very important; of high importance.
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  • Being in the basic form; showing its essence.
  • Don’t mind him being grumpy. That’s the essential Fred.
  • Really existing; existent.
  • * Webster (1623)
  • Is it true, that thou art but a name, / And no essential thing?
  • Such that each complementary region is irreducible, the boundary of each complementary region is incompressible by disks and monogons in the complementary region, and no leaf is a sphere or a torus bounding a solid torus in the manifold.
  • (medicine) Idiopathic.
  • Synonyms

    * indispensable, crucial, substantive * See also

    Antonyms

    * inessential, unessential, accidental, nonessential, unneeded, adscititious, unimportant, accessorial, unnecessary, incidental

    Derived terms

    * essential amino acid * essential fatty acid * essential listening * essential nutrient * essential oil * essentially * essentialness * quintessential

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A necessary ingredient.
  • A fundamental ingredient.
  • crying

    English

    (wikipedia crying)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • That demands action or attention.
  • There is a crying need for more manual workers in this country.
  • That deserves rebuke or censure.
  • It is a crying shame that he managed to get away with that!

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Action of the verb cry .
  • Their constant cryings kept us awake!

    Verb

    (head)
  • Anagrams

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