n. a very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms; arsenic and arsenic compounds are used as herbicides and insecticides and various alloys; found in arsenopyrite and orpiment and realgar

n. formerly the basic unit of money in Austria

n. a great amount or extent; "they did much for humanity"

n. anything indispensable; "food and shelter are necessities of life"; "the essentials of the good life"; "allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions"; "a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained"

adv. "They were equally beautiful"

adv. degree adverb used before a noun phrase: "Much the same thing happened every time"

adv. intensifier, as is "much better"

adv. "He was much annoyed"

adv. "I like her well"

adv. in music: "allegro molto"

adv. "We enjoyed ourselves very much"; "This would help a great deal"

adj. unavoidably determined by prior circumstances; "the necessary consequences of one's actions"

adj. absolutely essential

adj. with mass nouns; "much traffic"

adj. (used with mass nouns) great in quantity or degree or extent: "not much rain"; "much affection"; "much grain is in storage"

n. the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply; "an age of abundance"

n. abundance, copiousness

n. a state at a particular time; "a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations"

n. the condition of being essential or indispensable

n. something that is required in advance; "Latin was a prerequisite for admission"

n. established customary state (especially of society); "order ruled in the streets"; "law and order"

n. the lowest tone of a harmonic series

n. (usually plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant

adj. required by rule; "in most schools physical education is compulsory"; "attendance is mandatory"; "required reading"

adj. required as a prior condition or course of study

adj. existing as an essential constituent or characteristic; "the Ptolemaic system with its built-in concept of periodicity"; "a constitutional inability to tell the truth"

adj. serving as an essential component; "a cardinal rule"; "the central cause of the problem"; "an example that was fundamental to the argument"; "computers are fundamental to modern industrial structure"

adj. constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup)

adj. requiring attention or action; "as nuclear weapons proliferate, preventing war becomes imperative"; "requests that grew more and more imperative"

adj. impossible to avoid or evade:"inescapable conclusion"; "an ineluctable destiny"; "an unavoidable accident"

adj. basic and fundamental; "the essential feature"

adj. not to be dispensed with; essential; "foods indispensable to good nutrition"

adj. morally or legally constraining or binding; "attendance is obligatory"; "an obligatory contribution"

adj. (informal) "big spender"

adj. a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by `as' or `too' or `so' or `that'; amounting to a large but indefinite number; "many temptations"; "the temptations are many"; "a good many"; "a great many"; "many directions"; "take as many apples as you like"; "too many clouds to see"; "never saw so many people"

adj. (comparative of `much' used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree; "more land"; "more support"; "more rain fell"; "more than a gallon"

n. anything that is not essential; "they discarded all their inessentials"

n. additional unspecified odds and ends; more of the same; "his report was full of etceteras"

adj. not necessary

adj. possible but not necessary; left to personal choice

adj. unnecessary and unwarranted; "a strikers' tent camp...was burned with needless loss of life"

adj. not absolutely necessary

adj. (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some; "little rain fell in May"; "gave it little thought"; "little hope remained"; "little time is left"; "we still have little money"; "a little hope remained"