Synonyms and Antonyms of vital
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having active strength of body or mind - a man who remained vital well into his 90s
animated, brisk, dashing, kinetic, lively, punchy, spirited, sprightly, vivacious
energized, enlivened, invigorated, vitalized
firm, fortified, mettlesome, mighty, powerful, puissant, strong
refreshed, rejuvenated, revitalized
able-bodied, athletic, beefy, brawny, burly, fit, hardy, husky, muscular, robustious, rugged, stalwart, stout, strapping, sturdy, tough, virile
hale, healthy, hearty, sound
capable, competent
delicate, effete, enervated, faint, feeble, frail, infirm, wan, weak, weakened
impotent, powerless, prostrate, prostrated, sapped, tired
indolent, lackadaisical, languid, lazy
invertebrate, nerveless, soft, spineless, wimpy
ill, unhealthy, unsound, unwell
broken-down, debilitated, decrepit, disabled, wasted, worn-out
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having much high-spirited energy and movement - The child is vital and active again after being sick.
active, airy, animate, animated, bouncing, brisk, energetic, frisky, gay, jaunty, jazzy, kinetic, lively, mettlesome, peppy, perky, pert, racy, snappy, spanking, sparky, spirited, sprightly, springy, vivacious, zippy
dapper, dashing, spiffy
agog, alert, awake, open-eyed, up, wide-awake
agile, nimble, spry
bright, buoyant, cheerful, chipper, chirpy, effervescent, sparkly, upbeat
eager, enthusiastic, keen
frolicsome, impish, pixieish, playful
boisterous, bubbly, ebullient, exuberant, high-spirited
indolent, lazy, unambitious
inert, lethargic, sleepy, sluggish, tired, torpid, weary
apathetic, impassive, phlegmatic, stolid
boring, dull, irksome, tedious
dead, inactive, inanimate, lackadaisical, languid, languishing, languorous, leaden, lifeless, limp, listless, spiritless, vapid
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impossible to do without - I forgot one vital ingredient, and now the biscuits taste strange.
all-important, critical, essential, imperative, indispensable, integral, must-have, necessary, necessitous, needed, needful, required, requisite
prerequisite
compulsory, mandatory, nonelective, obligatory
consequential, crucial, important, major, material, meaningful, momentous, significant, substantial, weighty
basic, central, fundamental, key, organic
insistent, persistent, pressing, urgent
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likely to cause or capable of causing death - received a vital wound in the abdomen
baleful, deadly, deathly, fatal, fell, killer, lethal, mortal, murderous, pestilent, terminal
baneful, deleterious, destructive, harmful, injurious, noxious, pernicious, truculent
infectious, infective, pestilential, poisonous, sublethal, toxic, virulent
dangerous, grave, grievous, hazardous, jeopardizing, menacing, parlous, perilous, risky, serious, threatening, ugly, unhealthy, unsound
bloody, internecine, sanguinary, sanguine
beneficial, restorative, salubrious, salutary
alleviative, corrective, curative, remedial, tonic
advantageous, beneficial, useful
nonpoisonous, nontoxic, safe
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of the greatest possible importance - a matter that is vital to our national security
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having a renewing effect on the state of the body or mind - After the long, dreary winter, we welcomed the vital rays of the summer sun.
bracing, cordial, invigorating, refreshing, rejuvenating, restorative, reviving, stimulating, stimulative, tonic, vitalizing
conditioning, strengthening
animating, exhilarating, exhilarative, quickening, sharp
corrective, curative, curing, medicinal, rectifying, recuperative, rehabilitative, remedial, remedying, reparative, therapeutic
beneficial, healthful, healthy, helpful, salubrious, salutary, wholesome
deadening, debilitating, draining, enervating, enfeebling, exhausting, numbing, sapping, weakening, wearying
deleterious, injurious, pernicious
insalubrious, noxious, unhealthful, unhealthy, unwholesome
