[
  {
    "word": "essential",
    "phonetic": "/\u026a\u02c8s\u025bn.\u0283\u0259l/",
    "phonetics": [
      {
        "text": "/\u026a\u02c8s\u025bn.\u0283\u0259l/",
        "audio": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/essential-us.mp3",
        "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1749828",
        "license": {
          "name": "BY-SA 3.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
        }
      }
    ],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "A necessary ingredient.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A fundamental ingredient.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "Necessary.",
            "synonyms": [
              "indispensable"
            ],
            "antonyms": [
              "accessorial",
              "accidental",
              "incidental",
              "unnecessary",
              "unneeded"
            ]
          },
          {
            "definition": "Very important; of high importance.",
            "synonyms": [
              "crucial"
            ],
            "antonyms": [
              "unimportant"
            ]
          },
          {
            "definition": "Necessary for survival but not synthesized by the organism, thus needing to be ingested",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "Being in the basic form; showing its essence.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [
              "adscititious"
            ],
            "example": "Don\u2019t mind him being grumpy. That\u2019s the essential Fred."
          },
          {
            "definition": "Really existing; existent.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "Such that each complementary region is irreducible, the boundary of each complementary region is incompressible by disks and monogons in the complementary region, and no leaf is a sphere or a torus bounding a solid torus in the manifold.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "Idiopathic.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [
          "crucial",
          "indispensable"
        ],
        "antonyms": [
          "accessorial",
          "accidental",
          "incidental",
          "unnecessary",
          "unneeded",
          "adscititious",
          "inessential",
          "non-essential",
          "nonessential",
          "unessential",
          "unimportant"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "license": {
      "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
    },
    "sourceUrls": [
      "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/essential"
    ]
  }
]