vital
adj 1: urgently needed; absolutely necessary; "a critical element
of the plan"; "critical medical supplies"; "vital for
a healthy society"; "foods indispensable to good
nutrition" [syn: {critical}]
2: relating to the chief data about lives; "vital records";
"vital statistics"
3: giving or having the power to give life and spirit;
"returning the life-giving humus to the land"- Louis
Bromfield; "life-giving love and praise"; "the vital rays
of the warming sun" [syn: {life-giving}, {vitalizing}]
4: performing an essential function in the living body; "vital
organs"; "blood and other vital fluids"; "the loss of
vital heat in shock"; "a vital spot" [syn: {life-sustaining}]
5: full of spirit; "a vital and charismatic leader"; "this
whole vital world" [syn: {full of life}, {lively}]
6: having or characterized by life; "a vital being"; "the
population of the vital teeming slums"
7: existing as a manifestation of life; "vital powers"; "eating
to maintain vital energy"; "recognizing no mystic vital
force"