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Basic vs. Essential

Basic and Essential Definitions

Basic

A widely used programming language that is designed to be easy to learn.

Essential

Constituting or being part of the nature or essence of something; inherent
"In that era of general good will ... few Americans doubted the essential goodness of their society" (David Halberstam).

Basic

An essential, fundamental element or entity
The basics of math.

Essential

Fundamentally important or necessary
Essential ingredients.

Basic

Basic training.

Essential

(Medicine) Of, relating to, or being a condition or a disease whose cause is unknown
Essential hypertension.
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Basic

Of, relating to, or forming a base; fundamental
“Basic changes in public opinion often occur because of shifts in concerns and priorities” (Atlantic).

Essential

(Biochemistry) Being a substance that is required for normal functioning but cannot be synthesized by the body and therefore must be included in the diet
Essential amino acids.

Basic

Of, being, or serving as a starting point or basis
A basic course in Russian.
A set of basic woodworking tools.

Essential

Something fundamental.

Basic

Of or relating to a base.

Essential

Something necessary or indispensable.
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Basic

Containing a base, especially in excess of acid.

Essential

Necessary.

Basic

Alkaline.

Essential

Very important; of high importance.

Basic

(Geology) Containing little silica, as certain igneous rocks.

Essential

(biology) Necessary for survival but not synthesized by the organism, thus needing to be ingested.
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Basic

(Slang) Unthinkingly or blandly conformist
“Even someone who looks really indie … can be basic if they are simply imitating others rather than thinking for themselves” (Chelsea Rickling).

Essential

Being in the basic form; showing its essence.
Don’t mind him being grumpy. That’s the essential Fred.

Basic

Necessary, essential for life or some process.
Flour is a basic ingredient of bread.

Essential

Really existing; existent.

Basic

Elementary, simple, fundamental, merely functional.
The Hotel Sparta’s accommodation is very basic.

Essential

(geometry) 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.
Difference between 1 and 2

Basic

(chemistry) Of or pertaining to a base; having a pH greater than 7.

Essential

(medicine) Idiopathic.
Essential blepharospasm

Basic

(slang) Unremarkable or uninteresting; boring; uncool.

Essential

Having the nature of essence; not physical.

Basic

A necessary commodity, a staple requirement.
Rice is a basic for many Asian villagers.

Essential

A necessary ingredient.

Basic

An elementary building block, e.g. a fundamental piece of knowledge.
Arithmetic is a basic for the study of mathematics.
I know the basics of sailing and would love to learn more.

Essential

A fundamental ingredient.

Basic

(military) Basic training.
The drill sergeants gave him hell in basic.

Essential

Belonging to the essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is.
Majestic as the voice sometimes became, there was forever in it an essential character of plaintiveness.

Basic

Relating to a base; performing the office of a base in a salt.

Essential

Hence, really existing; existent.
Is it true, that thou art but a name,And no essential thing?

Basic

Said of crystalline rocks which contain a relatively low percentage of silica, as basalt.

Essential

Important in the highest degree; indispensable to the attainment of an object; indispensably necessary.
Judgment's more essential to a generalThan courage.
How to live? - that is the essential question for us.

Basic

An artificial computer language with a relatively simplified instruction set.

Essential

Containing the essence or characteristic portion of a substance, as of a plant; highly rectified; pure; hence, unmixed; as, an essential oil.

Basic

A popular programming language that is relatively easy to learn; an acronym for beginner's all-purpose symbolic instruction code; no longer in general use

Essential

Necessary; indispensable; - said of those tones which constitute a chord, in distinction from ornamental or passing tones.

Basic

(usually plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant

Essential

Idiopathic; independent of other diseases.

Basic

Pertaining to or constituting a base or basis;
A basic fact
The basic ingredients
Basic changes in public opinion occur because of changes in priorities

Essential

Existence; being.

Basic

Reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality;
A basic story line
A canonical syllable pattern

Essential

That which is essential; first or constituent principle; as, the essentials of religion.

Basic

Of primary importance;
Basic truths

Essential

Anything indispensable;
Food and shelter are necessities of life
The essentials of the good life
Allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions
A place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained

Basic

Serving as a base or starting point;
A basic course in Russian
Basic training for raw recruits
A set of basic tools
An introductory art course

Essential

Absolutely necessary; vitally necessary;
Essential tools and materials
Funds essential to the completion of the project
An indispensable worker

Basic

Of or denoting or of the nature of or containing a base

Essential

Basic and fundamental;
The essential feature

Essential

Of the greatest importance;
The all-important subject of disarmament
Crucial information
In chess cool nerves are of the essence

Essential

Being or relating to or containing the essence of a plant etc;
Essential oil

Essential

Applying to essential legal principles and rules of right;
Substantive law

Essential

Absolutely required and not to be used up or sacrificed

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