of the essence
• critically important.
• "time will be of the essence during negotiations"
Similar:
vital,
essential,
indispensable,
crucial,
key,
necessary,
needed,
required,
called for,
requisite,
important,
all-important,
vitally important,
of the utmost importance,
of great consequence,
critical,
life-and-death,
imperative,
mandatory,
compulsory,
obligatory,
urgent,
pressing,
burning,
compelling,
acute,
paramount,
pre-eminent,
high-priority,
significant,
consequential,
in essence
• basically and without regard for peripheral details; fundamentally.
• "in detail the class system is complex but in essence it is simple"
Similar:
basically,
fundamentally,
elementally,
essentially,
at bottom,
at heart,
primarily,
principally,
chiefly,
firstly,
predominantly,
substantially,
in substance,
materially,
above all,
first of all,
most of all,
first and foremost,
effectively,
in effect,
virtually,
to all intents and purposes,
intrinsically,
inherently,
au fond,
at the end of the day,
when all is said and done,
when you get right down to it,
