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Vital   /vˈaɪtəl/   Listen
Vital

adjective
1.
Urgently needed; absolutely necessary.  Synonym: critical.  "Critical medical supplies" , "Vital for a healthy society" , "Of vital interest"
2.
Performing an essential function in the living body.  Synonym: life-sustaining.  "Blood and other vital fluids" , "The loss of vital heat in shock" , "A vital spot" , "Life-giving love and praise"
3.
Full of spirit.  Synonyms: full of life, lively.  "A vital and charismatic leader" , "This whole lively world"
4.
Manifesting or characteristic of life.  "Vital signs"



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"Vital" Quotes from Famous Books



... McClurg: "No, he is far from the truth. Upon the vital, the essential point, he is fatally weak. Go back, erring brother—go back into the outer darkness; it is not for you to sit ...
— Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions - Vol. I • Slason Thompson
... are estimates from the Bureau of the Census based on statistics from population censuses, vital registration systems, or sample surveys pertaining to the recent past, and on assumptions ...
— The 1991 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... with prayers in passion flowing, Pygmalion embraced the stone, Till from the frozen marble glowing, The light of feeling o'er him shone, So did I clasp with young devotion Bright Nature to a poet's heart; Till breath and warmth and vital motion Seemed through the statue ...
— TITLE • AUTHOR
... to infanticide and twin-murder we can speak hopefully. It will doubtless take some time to develop in them the spirit of self- sacrifice to the extent of nursing the vital spark for the mere love of God and humanity among the body of the people. The ideals of those emerging from heathenism are almost necessarily low. What the foreigner does is all very well for the foreigner, but the force of habit or something more subtle evidently excuses the ...
— Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary • W. P. Livingstone
... the girl before him with new interest. Out of her chatter he had at last garnered one important fact. His mind, trained to seize upon the vital and instantly discard the inconsequential, clutched the bit of information, and turned it over. From the first Carroll had scouted the idea that the dead man's fiancee might have been responsible for his death; but still it was a line of investigation ...
— Midnight • Octavus Roy Cohen


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