Essential vs Unvarnished - What's the difference?
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Necessary.
Very important; of high importance.
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Being in the basic form; showing its essence.
Really existing; existent.
* Webster (1623)
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(medicine) Idiopathic.
Not having been coated with varnish (or a similar surface treatment).
(figuratively, by extension) Natural, unmodified, unembellished, not exaggerated, as in unvarnished truth .
Essential is a related term of unvarnished.
As adjectives the difference between essential and unvarnished
is that essential is necessary while unvarnished is not having been coated with varnish (or a similar surface treatment).As a noun essential
is a necessary ingredient.essential
English
Adjective
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- Don’t mind him being grumpy. That’s the essential Fred.
- Is it true, that thou art but a name, / And no essential thing?