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Vitally

adv.capable, resilientprofessional

What it means

In an essential, energetic, or life-supporting way.

Reach for it when marking something as essential to life, success, or proper functioning

Wetlands remain vitally important to the region's water supply.

Choose between these

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  • everyday

    importantly

    significance deserves notice without claiming necessity

    not when Importance is weaker than vital dependence.

  • everyday

    urgently

    immediate timing is the concern

    not when Urgency does not establish long-term importance.

  • professional

    crucially

    the point can determine the outcome

    not when Crucially signals logic more than life or function.

  • formal

    essentially

    something is fundamentally necessary

    not when Essentially can also mean in basic terms.

  • literary

    indispensably

    nothing else can take the same role

    not when Indispensably is awkward and highly absolute.

Said against

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  • trivially
  • optionally
  • irrelevantly

It naturally appears in

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  • vitally important

    Reliable translation is vitally important during emergency intake.

  • vitally connected

    Wetland health is vitally connected to the town's water supply.

  • vitally necessary

    Shade is vitally necessary for seedlings during the first summer.

The word family

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Where this comes from

The definition and the example on this page are written here. The dictionaries above ground which meaning is being described, not the wording.