Synonyms for VITAL
ˈvaɪt lvi·tal

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1. vital

   Synonyms:
   living, animate, life-supporting, life-containing, essential, necessary, important, indispensable, inseparable, paramount, material

   Antonyms:
   mortal, lethal, cadaverous, lifeless, inanimate, unessential, unimportant, secondary, separable, immaterial

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1. critical, vitaladjective

   urgently needed; absolutely necessary

   "a critical element of the plan"; "critical medical supplies"; "vital for a healthy society"; "of vital interest"

   Synonyms:
   decisive, lively, full of life, critical, life-sustaining, vital

   Antonyms:
   dead, unanimated, unessential, inessential, dispensable

2. vital, life-sustainingadjective

   performing an essential function in the living body

   "vital organs"; "blood and other vital fluids"; "the loss of vital heat in shock"; "a vital spot"; "life-giving love and praise"

   Synonyms:
   life-sustaining, lively, critical, full of life, vital

   Antonyms:
   inessential, unessential, dead, dispensable, unanimated

3. full of life, lively, vitaladjective

   full of spirit

   "a dynamic full of life woman"; "a vital and charismatic leader"; "this whole lively world"

   Synonyms:
   spanking, live, resilient, lively, springy, bouncy, snappy, vital, brisk, racy, critical, life-sustaining, merry, zippy, full of life, rattling, alert

   Antonyms:
   dispensable, inessential, unessential, dead, unanimated

4. vitaladjective

   manifesting or characteristic of life

   "a vital, living organism"; "vital signs"

   Synonyms:
   life-sustaining, lively, critical, full of life

   Antonyms:
   inessential, dead, unanimated, unessential, dispensable

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1. vitaladjective

   Synonyms:
   essential, indispensable, very necessary

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1. List of paraphrases for "vital":

   essential, crucial, critical, important, fundamental, indispensable, key, decisive, imperative, vitale, life-saving, necessary, paramount, pivotal, basic, capital, central, major, core, significant

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1. Scott Porter:

   Social media is also becoming a vital marketing tool.

2. Burton Rascoe:

   A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life--what people are interested in. That's journalism.

3. Martin Luther:

   President President Joe Biden and Congress used President Biden and Congress political muscle to deliver a vital infrastructure deal, and now we are calling on President Biden and Congress to do the same to restore the very voting rights protections my father and countless other civil rights leaders bled to secure.

4. Commerce Minister Zhong Shan:

   Use every penny on vital things.

5. Paul Coxon:

   All three Nobel winners played vital roles in this energy storage revolution which has now placed power in our pockets, it's a wonderful example of taking research from the lab. We can literally hold the result in our hands.