Basic vs. Essential

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

Constituting or being part of the nature or essence of something; inherent

An essential, fundamental element or entity

Fundamentally important or necessary

Basic training.

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

Of, relating to, or forming a base; fundamental

(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

Of, being, or serving as a starting point or basis

Something fundamental.

Of or relating to a base.

Something necessary or indispensable.

Containing a base, especially in excess of acid.

Necessary.

Alkaline.

Very important; of high importance.

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

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

(Slang) Unthinkingly or blandly conformist

Being in the basic form; showing its essence.

Necessary, essential for life or some process.

Really existing; existent.

Elementary, simple, fundamental, merely functional.

(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.

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

(medicine) Idiopathic.

(slang) Unremarkable or uninteresting; boring; uncool.

Having the nature of essence; not physical.

A necessary commodity, a staple requirement.

A necessary ingredient.

An elementary building block, e.g. a fundamental piece of knowledge.

A fundamental ingredient.

(military) Basic training.

Belonging to the essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is.

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

Hence, really existing; existent.

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

Important in the highest degree; indispensable to the attainment of an object; indispensably necessary.

An artificial computer language with a relatively simplified instruction set.

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

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

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

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

Idiopathic; independent of other diseases.

Pertaining to or constituting a base or basis;

Existence; being.

Reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality;

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

Of primary importance;

Anything indispensable;

Serving as a base or starting point;

Absolutely necessary; vitally necessary;

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

Basic and fundamental;

Of the greatest importance;

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

Applying to essential legal principles and rules of right;

Absolutely required and not to be used up or sacrificed