Essential and Token

Essential

Essential adjective - Impossible to do without.

Token and essential are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Token" instead an adjective "Essential".

Nearby Words: essence, essentially, essentiality

Token

Token adjective - Insignificantly small; a matter of form only (`tokenish' is informal).
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Synonyms for Token

Essential and token are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Essential" instead an adjective "Token".

Nearby Word: tokenism

How words are described

good good essential good token
black black essential black token

Both words in one sentence

  • Deadly Disc This weapon is essential for defeating the Jackhammer mini-boss in the same level, as well as opening the drawers in the office to get a Pizza Planet Token in the Al's Toy Barn level.
    Source: Deadly Disc
  • This is due to the one great limitation of GL's power ring: it doesn't work on anything that's yellow (since it symbolizes fear, which is the essential opposite to willpower, whose token color is green).
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