vital
Necessary for existence
Vital means essential to life or continued existence: vital organs, vital signs.
By extension, vital describes anything critically important: a vital piece of evidence, vital to our success.
The word also suggests energetic liveliness—someone with a vital personality is full of vigor and animation.
She remained vital well into her eighties.
Expressing disapproval or importance
- essentialFundamentally necessary
- pivotalVitally important, deciding
- decisiveQuick to conclude
- keyLock-opening device
fundamental · imperative · indispensable · paramount · urgent · integral · central · core
Currently having breath
- aliveHaving current existence
- life-givingSustaining or restoring vitality
- lifebloodEssential animating element
- existenceState of being real
survival · breath · pulse · heartbeat · metabolism · sustenance · nourishment · growth
Overall state of health
- vigorActive physical strength
- fitnessGood physical shape
- strengthPower to exert force
- robustnessResistance to failure
hardiness · stamina · resilience · constitution · soundness · wholeness · hale · hearty
Attractively energetic and enthusiastic
- livelyAnimated and energetic
- vibrantFull of life, intensity
- dynamicActive and changing
- animatedFull of life, or drawn moving
spirited · vigorous · exuberant · zestful · sprightly · buoyant · effervescent · peppy
Circulatory system's pump
- lungsRespiratory chest organs
- brainSeat of cognition
- liverAbdominal detoxifying organ
- kidneysBlood-filtering organ pair
pancreas · stomach · intestines · spleen · bladder · gallbladder · thyroid · adrenal
Arterial blood throb
- heartbeatRhythmic cardiac contraction
- respirationGas exchange in organisms
- temperatureMeasured heat intensity
- blood pressureCirculatory force measurement
oxygen saturation · breathing rate · consciousness · monitoring · stable · unstable · faint · weak
critical
Expressing disapproval or importance
key · fundamental · imperative · indispensable · paramount · urgent · integral · central · core · pressing
living
Currently having breath
- aliveHaving current existence
- life-givingSustaining or restoring vitality
- lifebloodEssential animating element
existence · survival · breath · pulse · heartbeat · metabolism · sustenance · nourishment · growth · reproduction
wellness
Overall state of health
robustness · hardiness · stamina · resilience · constitution · soundness · wholeness · hale · hearty · thriving
vivacious
Attractively energetic and enthusiastic
animated · spirited · vigorous · exuberant · zestful · sprightly · buoyant · effervescent · peppy · sparkling
heart
Circulatory system's pump
kidneys · pancreas · stomach · intestines · spleen · bladder · gallbladder · thyroid · adrenal · transplant
pulse
Arterial blood throb
- heartbeatRhythmic cardiac contraction
- respirationGas exchange in organisms
- temperatureMeasured heat intensity
blood pressure · oxygen saturation · breathing rate · consciousness · monitoring · stable · unstable · faint · weak · strong
- V-wordsvacuum, valley, value, vampire, van
- importanceimportance, significance, consequence, weight, gravity
- SAT vocabularyaesthetic, ambiguous, benevolent, candid, concise
- urgencyurgent, urgently, emergency, ASAP, stat
- qualitiesgood, bad, better, best, useful
- cardinalsnorthern cardinal, cardinals, cardinal direction, cardinal points, cardinal virtue
vitalunimportant
Lacking significance or weight
unnecessary · trivial · inessential · insignificant · dispensable
vitalnonlethal
Not causing death
nonfatal · survivable · non-life-threatening · superficial · minor
- vitamin CEssential water-soluble antioxidant
- vitamin D deficiencyInadequate sunshine hormone levels
- vital signsMeasurable life indicators
- vitamin DCalcium absorption enabler
- vital organsStructures essential for survival
- vitamin ASight-supporting micronutrient
vitality, vitamin, revitalize, vitalize, vitally, vitals, devitalize, vitalizing, vital statistics