The capacity to live and develop. / Energy or vigour. / That which distinguishes living from nonliving things; life, animateness.

Relating to, or characteristic of life. / Necessary to the continuation of life; being the seat of life; being that on which life depends. / Invigorating or life-giving.

(American spelling) Alternative spelling of vitalise

The doctrine that life involves some immaterial "vital force", and cannot be explained scientifically.

(plural only) Those organs of the body that are essential for life. / (plural only, figuratively) Those parts of a system without which it cannot function. / (medicine, plural only) Vital signs.

The act of vitalizing; enlivenment; vivification.

In a manner that imparts vitality / To an extent that is vital; indispensably

plural of vitalization

present participle of vitalize

simple past tense and past participle of vitalize