most vital

basic critical crucial decisive fundamental imperative important indispensable integral key meaningful necessary needed significant urgent

bottom-line cardinal coal-and-ice constitutive heavy life-or-death meat-and-potatoes name name-of-the-game nitty-gritty prerequisite required requisite underlined

additional extra inessential insignificant meaningless minor needless nonessential optional secondary trivial uncritical unimportant unnecessary useless voluntary worthless

dead dull insignficant sluggish

dynamic energetic vibrant vigorous

animated forceful lusty red-blooded spirited strenuous vivacious zestful

dull idle inactive lethargic

dead inessential insignficant sluggish trivial unimportant

animate animated breathing generative invigorative life-giving live living quickening

dead dull inessential insignficant sluggish trivial unimportant