What is the word that means essential but in a negative sense?

[hungry bird]

What is the word that means essential but in a negative sense?

 

[skip.knox]

• auxiliary
• extra
• inessential
• minor
• needless
• nonessential
• optional
• secondary
• subordinate
• trivial
• unimportant
• unnecessary
• voluntary
• inferior
• accessory
• atypical
• subsidiary

List acquired by a search for "essential antonyms"

 

[Devor]

Necessary Evil.

 

[Kasper Hviid]

fatal
fateful
terminal
the last straw
coup de grâce
fatality (Mortal Combat)

 

[Aldarion]

What is the word that means essential but in a negative sense?

What exactly do you mean by a "negative sense"? It could be "opposite of essential", or "essential but somehow damaging".

 

[hungry bird]

To clarify, Essential but somehow damaging is what im looking for, like insinuate and hint. Sorry about that

 

[Aldarion]

To clarify, Essential but somehow damaging is what im looking for, like insinuate and hint. Sorry about that

Necessary evil, but that is a phrase. I am unaware of a word as such existing... though maybe someone who is a native speaker of English would know? Or not...

 

[Ban]

To clarify, Essential but somehow damaging is what im looking for, like insinuate and hint. Sorry about that

Dependent, compulsory,

 

[Aldarion]

Dependent, compulsory,

Doesn't that just mean essenitail, though? Not that it is inherently damaging?

 

[Ban]

Doesn't that just mean essenitail, though? Not that it is inherently damaging?

Both have an inherently negative tone. Dependent focuses on the fact that the subject cannot be divorced from the thing it is tied to. Compulsory focuses on the inescapability of the thing.