Essential
Essential adjective - Impossible to do without.
Particular and essential are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Particular" instead the word "Essential" as an adjective or a noun.
Particular
Particular adjective - Hard to please.
Essential and particular are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Essential" instead the word "Particular" as an adjective or a noun.
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| bad | bad essential | bad particular |
Both words in one sentence
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In particular Sanosuke, Anji and Raijuta gets hit hardest with this with their pasts that are essential to their personalities removed (with the last not even appearing in the live action movie).
Source: Manga / Rurouni Kenshin -
Tolkien argued that the author of Beowulf was addressing human destiny in general, not as limited by particular tribal politics, and therefore the monsters were essential to the poem.
Source: Literature / Beowulf -
Whole Plot Reference: The essential story of Faust, in particular the Marlowe and Goethe versions, has been lifted for dozens, if not hundreds, of works over the centuries.
Source: Faust
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