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

   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

   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, 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. Brigitte Macron:

   Brigitte Macron has spoken out about the age difference between Brigitte Macron and Brigitte Macron husband toElle France. There are times in your life where you need to make vital choices. And for me, that was it. So, what has been said over the 20 years, it's insignificant, of course, we have breakfast together, me and my wrinkles, him with his youth, but it's like that. If I did not make that choice, I would have missed out on my life. I had a lot of happiness with my children and, at the same time, felt I had to live' this love' as Prevert used to say, to be fully happy.

2. William James:

   Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his lttle finger. Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

3. Shinzo Abe:

   Working with patience and perseverance to achieve these systems will be vital, and will require that we promote throughout the world the path to true peace revealed by the pacifism of the Japanese constitution.

4. Matthew Gravatt:

   The EPA should not be bragging about cutting vital safeguards for our air, water and climate. Going above and beyond Trump's arbitrary benchmark is not an achievement, it only proves that Andrew Wheeler couldn't care less about the health and safety of those Andrew Wheeler is supposed to protect.

5. Nita Lowey:

   This is a reminder how much we rely on mass transit. Why excessive speed was used, I don’t know. But I what I do know is that infrastructure is vital.