Synonyms & related words for essentials

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Words related to essentials

Explore words related to essentials — words associated with it, words that go with it, and its nearest matches in meaning. Related words include indispensable, necessaries, crucial, necessity, basics, requisite, essentialness, fundamentals. Click any word to make it the center of the map and keep exploring the web of connections.

Where does essentials come from?

The word essentials breaks down into one root of Latin origin: the root ess-, from Latin esse (“be”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.