Claim and Essential

Claim

Claim noun - Something that someone insists upon having.
Usage example: young children make great claims on their parents' time

Essential and claim are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Essential" instead a noun "Claim".

Nearby Words: claimed, claiming, claimant

Essential

Essential noun - Something necessary, indispensable, or unavoidable.

Claim and essential are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Claim" instead a noun "Essential".

Nearby Words: essence, essentially, essentiality

How words are described

good good claim good essential
main main claim main essential

Both words in one sentence

  • Some claim that ethics and empathy are a direct consequence of individual weakness, and thus improving humankind would mean that an essential part of human nature will be lost in the process.
    Source: Transhuman
  • It's also the game that opens up a thousand cans of worms for future exploration and turned out to be essential to understanding the meta-plot, despite what some people claim.
  • Draft Dodging The team owners of America's baseball leagues tried (both times) to claim that baseball was an "essential industry," in an effort to keep their players from being drafted.
    Source: Draft Dodging
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Essential and Claim. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/claim/essential
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