1
as in intrinsic
being a part of the innermost nature of a person or thing
a car dealer respected for his integral honesty and straightforwardness with customers
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2
as in essential
impossible to do without
she's an integral member of the team of archaeologists at that dig
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as in entire
not lacking any part or member that properly belongs to it
a prep school that adheres to the belief that athletics are essential to an integral life
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Recent Examples of integral
Wilson was an integral part of the Beach Boys, serving as songwriter and co-lead vocalist.
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Marina Watts, People.com, 11 June 2025
Inquisitive, comprehensive dialogue and debate are an integral part of our democracy and must be part of any campaign.
—Scott W. Lang, Boston Herald, 10 June 2025
Academic journals and conferences can make peer-review risk assessments an integral part of the publication process, especially for high-risk applications.
—Ludovic Righetti, IEEE Spectrum, 10 June 2025
Yet before the eighteenth century, Europeans—including the English people who colonized North America—did not conceptualize hair as an integral body part.
—Literary Hub, 9 June 2025
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Marina Watts, People.com, 11 June 2025
Inquisitive, comprehensive dialogue and debate are an integral part of our democracy and must be part of any campaign.
—Scott W. Lang, Boston Herald, 10 June 2025
Academic journals and conferences can make peer-review risk assessments an integral part of the publication process, especially for high-risk applications.
—Ludovic Righetti, IEEE Spectrum, 10 June 2025
Yet before the eighteenth century, Europeans—including the English people who colonized North America—did not conceptualize hair as an integral body part.
—Literary Hub, 9 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for integral
Adjective
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Is your motivation for doing well extrinsic or intrinsic?—
DP Opinion,
Denver Post,
11 June 2025
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This intrinsic volatility is a typical trait of new, avant-garde technologies.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2025
Adjective
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Captions are essential, especially on mobile devices or in quiet settings.—
Dr. Diane Hamilton,
Forbes.com,
8 June 2025
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Emotional requirements: Compassion, patience and resilience are all essential but don’t expect emotional support in return.—
JJ Holmes,
The Orlando Sentinel,
8 June 2025
Adjective
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Best of all, though, was the Egyptian revival-style desert hotel, particularly the ballroom containing a large model of the entire infrastructure project, decorated in pharaohs and hieroglyphics.—
Bill Desowitz,
IndieWire,
10 June 2025
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The entire travel destination is a living, breathing counterpoint to extractive tourism, where visitors aren’t consumers of a place, but stewards of it, where local economies are strengthened, not drained, where wildlife is protected, not disturbed.—
Melissa Jun Rowley,
Rolling Stone,
10 June 2025
Adjective
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Humans in the Loop For sure, there’s a need to celebrate the human in the loop, and the inherent value of humanity.—
John Werner,
Forbes.com,
8 June 2025
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There is an inherent asymmetry of vulnerability here; doctors and patients are not equals at the Thanksgiving table.—
Danielle Ofri,
New Yorker,
7 June 2025
Adjective
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But policy continuity is key to attracting the foreign investment necessary to realize these goals.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
13 June 2025
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These implants required a power source to work, were unreliable, difficult to use, and had limited resolution, and the surgical procedure necessary to put them in the eye was extremely complicated.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
12 June 2025
Adjective
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There isn’t much of anything positive to point to in this whole saga.—
Howard Homonoff,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
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Two designers lost their whole shops, while others lost machinery and inventory.—
Angela Velasquez,
Sourcing Journal,
10 June 2025
Adjective
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This comes to a head when he is faced with the F.A.A.’s required medical questionnaire.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
25 May 2025
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Enacted after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the SEVP rules and certification process were intended to encourage schools to report when students dropped out or no longer maintained a required courseload and to remove fraudulent or illegitimate schools.—
Stuart Anderson,
Forbes.com,
25 May 2025
Adjective
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Ait-Nouri is far from a complete Premier League footballer.—
Steve Madeley,
New York Times,
6 June 2025
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The Phantom 3500’s wings achieve complete laminar flow, allowing for smoother airflow and reduced drag, enabling the aircraft to take off from runways as short as 3,500 feet, nearly doubling the number of accessible airports in the U.S. alone compared to similar-sized jets.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
5 June 2025
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“Integral.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/integral. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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