- of or relating to life: vital processes.
- having remarkable energy, liveliness, or force of personality: a vital leader.
- being the seat or source of life: the vital organs.
- necessary to life: vital fluids.
- necessary to the existence, continuance, or well-being of something; indispensable; essential: vital for a healthy society.
- affecting the existence, well-being, truth, etc., of something: a vital error.
- of critical importance: vital decisions.
- destructive to life; deadly: a vital wound.
- essential to maintain life
- forceful, energetic, or lively
- of, relating to, having, or displaying life
- indispensable or essential
- of great importance; decisive
- influencing the course of life, esp negatively
- (plural)
- the bodily organs, such as the brain, liver, heart, lungs, etc, that are necessary to maintain life
- the organs of reproduction, esp the male genitals
- the essential elements of anything
