of the essence

Speech parts

1. of the essence - Adjective

2. of the essence - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of the greatest importance

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

essential crucial all important cardinal central main important major required significant leading material primary necessary needed
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Antonyms

needless last little auxiliary minor secondary
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Examples

It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity. George Boole

It is of the essence of imaginative culture that is transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable. Northrop Frye

The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence. Arthur Schopenhauer

The intellectual ... may live for ideas, as I have said, but something must prevent him from living for one idea, from becoming obsessive or grotesque. Although there have been zealots whom we may still regard as intellectuals, zealotry is a defect of the breed and not of the essence. Richard Hofstadter

To be free is of the essence of every intellectual being. Jacques Maritain

The police are asking through the bedroom door, why did I make a batch of strawberry daiquiris before I called them? Because we were out of raspberries. Because, can't they see, it just does not matter. Time was not of the essence. Chuck Palahniuk

Close letter words and terms

of the darkest color of the day of the esophagus of the federal bureau of investigation of the first order of the first water