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Definition of Vital

Vital

  1. Belonging or relating to life, either animal or vegetable; as, vital energies; vital functions; vital actions.
  2. Contributing to life; necessary to, or supporting, life; as, vital blood.
  3. Containing life; living.
  4. Being the seat of life; being that on which life depends; mortal.
  5. Very necessary; highly important; essential.
  6. Capable of living; in a state to live; viable.
  7. A vital part; one of the vitals.

Vital Quotations

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.
Thomas Jefferson

For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.
Winston Churchill

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Carl Jung

It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
John Wooden

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.
Leo Buscaglia
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Vital Translations

vital in Dutch is vitaal
vital in French is fondamental
vital in German is entscheidend, grundlegend, wesentlich, wesentlich
vital in Italian is importante
vital in Spanish is vital, esencial
vital in Swedish is livsfarlig, livs-, vital

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