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indispensable
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective indispensable has 3 senses
- indispensable(a = adj.all) Array - not to be dispensed with; essential; "foods indispensable to good nutrition" Antonym: dispensable
- indispensable(s = adj.all) essential - absolutely necessary; vitally necessary; "essential tools and materials"; "funds essential to the completion of the project"; "an indispensable worker" Derived forms noun indispensability1, noun indispensableness1
- indispensable(s = adj.all) Array - unavoidable; "the routine but indispensable ceremonies of state"
Derived forms noun indispensability1, noun indispensableness1
CIDE DICTIONARY
indispensable, a. [Pref. in- not + dispensable: cf. F. indispensable.].
- Not dispensable; impossible to be omitted, remitted, or spared; absolutely necessary or requisite. [1913 Webster]
- Not admitting dispensation; not subject to release or exemption. [1913 Webster]"The law was moral and indispensable." [1913 Webster]
- Unavoidable; inevitable. Fuller. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
indispensable, adj.
1 (often foll. by to, for) that cannot be dispensed with; necessary.
2 (of a law, duty, etc.) that is not to be set aside.
1 (often foll. by to, for) that cannot be dispensed with; necessary.
2 (of a law, duty, etc.) that is not to be set aside.
Derivative
indispensability n. indispensableness n. indispensably adv.
Etymology
med.L indispensabilis (as IN-(1), DISPENSABLE)
THESAURUS
indispensable
bare necessities, basic, bedrock, call for, called for, cardinal, central, compelling, compulsory, crucial, demand, demand for, demanded, desideration, desideratum, essential, essentials, focal, fundamental, imperative, important, in demand, indicated, ineluctable, inescapable, irreducible, irreductible, irreplaceable, key, life-and-death, life-or-death, mandatory, material, must, must item, necessaries, necessary, necessities, necessitous, necessity, need, need for, needed, needful, obligatory, occasion, of the essence, of vital importance, prerequirement, prerequisite, required, requirement, requisite, requisition, sine qua non, substantive, the necessary, the needful, unavoidable, unforgoable, urgent, vital, want, wantedROGET THESAURUS
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Requirement
N requirement, need, wants, necessities, necessaries, necessaries of life, stress, exigency, pinch, sine qua non, matter of necessity, case of need, case of life or death, needfulness, essentiality, necessity, indispensability, urgency, requisition, run upon, demand, call for, charge, claim, command, injunction, mandate, order, precept, desideratum, want, Adj, required, requisite, needful, necessary, imperative, essential, indispensable, prerequisite, called for, in demand, in request, urgent, exigent, pressing, instant, crying, absorbing, in want of, destitute of, ex necessitate rei, of necessity, there is no time to lose, it cannot be spared, it cannot be dispensed with, mendacem memorem esse oportet, necessitas non habet legem, nec tecum possum trivere nec sine te.
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