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Definitions for Vital

[1] of or relating to life: vital processes.
[2] having remarkable energy, liveliness, or force of personality: a vital leader.
[3] being the seat or source of life: the vital organs.
[4] necessary to life: vital fluids.
[5] necessary to the existence, continuance, or well-being of something; indispensable; essential: vital for a healthy society.
[6] affecting the existence, well-being, truth, etc., of something: a vital error.
[7] of critical importance: vital decisions.
[8] destructive to life; deadly: a vital wound.
[9] those bodily organs that are essential to life, as the brain, heart, liver, lungs, and stomach.
[10] the essential parts of something: the vitals of a democracy.
[11] essential to maintain life the lungs perform a vital function
[12] forceful, energetic, or lively a vital person
[13] of, relating to, having, or displaying life a vital organism
[14] indispensable or essential books vital to this study
[15] of great importance; decisive a vital game
[16] archaic influencing the course of life, esp negatively a vital treachery
[17] (plural) the bodily organs, such as the brain, liver, heart, lungs, etc, that are necessary to maintain life the organs of reproduction, esp the male genitals
[18] (plural) the essential elements of anything

Words related to Vital

necessary, key, integral, needed, fundamental, indispensable, crucial, urgent, important, imperative, critical, significant, basic, decisive, meaningful, vibrant, vigorous, energetic, dynamic, cardinal

Words nearby Vital

visuosensory, visuospatial, visé, vita, vitaceous, vital, vital capacity, vital force, vital function, vital index, vital pulp

Origin of Vital

s1600–10; translation of Latin vītālia; see vital

Other words from Vital

vi·tal·ly , adverb
vi·tal·ness , noun
non·vi·tal , adjective
non·vi·tal·ly , adverb
non·vi·tal·ness , noun
qua·si-vi·tal , adjective
qua·si-vi·tal·ly , adverb
su·per·vi·tal , adjective
su·per·vi·tal·ly , adverb
su·per·vi·tal·ness , noun
un·vi·tal , adjective
un·vi·tal·ly , adverb
un·vi·tal·ness , noun

Word origin for Vital

C14: via Old French from Latin vītālis belonging to life, from vīta life

Synonyms for Vital

basic, critical, crucial, decisive, fundamental, imperative, important, indispensable, integral, key, meaningful, necessary, needed, significant, urgent, bottom-line, cardinal, coal-and-ice, constitutive, heavy, life-or-death, meat-and-potatoes, name, name-of-the-game, nitty-gritty, prerequisite, required, requisite, underlined