Essential
Ultimate
Ultimate adjective - Of the greatest or highest degree or quantity.
Essential is a synonym for ultimate in surface topic. Sometimes you can use "Essential" instead an adjective "Ultimate", if it concerns topics such as fundamental.
Nearby Words: ultimatum, ultimately
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Then there's the fact that there are a ton of essential vehicle items that cost as much as Alis's ultimate armor (15,000 meseta).
Source: Video Game / Phantasy Star I -
But they also have their own Ultimate Universe comics published entitled Essential Comics, whose characters are also revealed to be their actual alternate universe counterparts residing on Earth-7.
Source: Comicbook / The Multiversity - This show is one of the ultimate sources of this trope; set during the Second World War, many of the murderers and criminals Foyle exposes are also somehow essential to the British war effort, and thus manage to wriggle out of punishment and get away with murder.
Source: Karma Houdini / Live-Action TV
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