USA Today: Here are the best coffee makers for home baristas and everyday brewing

Upgrading your at-home coffee maker can save money without sacrificing quality. Coffee makers are available in various styles, including single-serve, drip, and specialty espresso machines. Consider ...

Here are the best coffee makers for home baristas and everyday brewing

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vital suggests something that is necessary to a thing's continued existence or operation.

VITAL definition: 1. necessary for the success or continued existence of something; extremely important: 2…. Learn more.

If you describe someone or something as vital, you mean that they are very energetic and full of life. They are both very vital people and a good match. They have something important to say and vital and radical ways of saying it.

1. of, pertaining to, or necessary to life: vital processes. 2. energetic, lively, or forceful: a vital leader. 3. necessary to the existence, continuance, or well-being of something; essential. 4. of critical importance: vital decisions.

From Middle English vital, from Old French vital, from Latin vītālis (“of life, life-giving”), from vīta (“life”), from vīvō (“to live”). Doublet of jiva and quick.

Essential to the existence or continuance of something; indispensable. A vital function.

Use the adjective vital to describe something that is important and necessary, or a person full of energy. Vital descends from Middle English, from Old French, from Latin vītālis, from vīta, "life."