Basic vs. Essential
Difference Between Basic and Essential
Basicadjective
Necessary, essential for life or some process.
Flour is a basic ingredient of bread.Essentialadjective
Necessary.
Basicadjective
Elementary, simple, fundamental, merely functional.
The Hotel Sparta’s accommodation is very basic.Essentialadjective
Very important; of high importance.
Basicadjective
(chemistry) Of or pertaining to a base; having a pH greater than 7.
Essentialadjective
(biology) necessary for survival but not synthesized by the organism, thus needing to be ingested
Basicadjective
(slang) Unremarkable or uninteresting; boring; uncool.
Essentialadjective
Being in the basic form; showing its essence.
Don’t mind him being grumpy. That’s the essential Fred.Basicnoun
A necessary commodity, a staple requirement.
Rice is a basic for many Asian villagers.Essentialadjective
Really existing; existent.
Basicnoun
An elementary building block, e.g. a fundamental piece of knowledge.
Arithmetic is a basic for the study of mathematics.Essentialadjective
(of a lamination of a 3-manifold) 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 2Basicnoun
(military) Basic training.
The drill sergeants gave him hell in basic.Essentialadjective
(medicine) Idiopathic.
Basicnoun
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
Essentialnoun
A necessary ingredient.
Basicnoun
(usually plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant
Essentialnoun
A fundamental ingredient.
Basicadjective
pertaining to or constituting a base or basis;
a basic factthe basic ingredientsbasic changes in public opinion occur because of changes in prioritiesEssentialnoun
anything indispensable;
food and shelter are necessities of lifethe essentials of the good lifeallow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditionsa place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtainedBasicadjective
reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality;
a basic story linea canonical syllable patternEssentialadjective
absolutely necessary; vitally necessary;
essential tools and materialsfunds essential to the completion of the projectan indispensable workerBasicadjective
of primary importance;
basic truthsEssentialadjective
basic and fundamental;
the essential featureBasicadjective
serving as a base or starting point;
a basic course in Russianbasic training for raw recruitsa set of basic toolsan introductory art courseEssentialadjective
of the greatest importance;
the all-important subject of disarmamentcrucial informationin chess cool nerves are of the essenceBasicadjective
of or denoting or of the nature of or containing a base
Essentialadjective
being or relating to or containing the essence of a plant etc;
essential oilEssentialadjective
applying to essential legal principles and rules of right;
substantive lawEssentialadjective
absolutely required and not to be used up or sacrificed
