Definition of indespensable
1. indispensable [ a ] not to be dispensed with; essential
Examples:
"foods indispensable to good nutrition"
(John Hazard Wildman, "Take It Off," The Arizona...)
Arlene became indispensable ; nobody could have told why .
Synonyms indispensable Related Terms dispensable critical necessary dispensability2. indispensable [ a ] absolutely necessary; vitally necessary
Examples:
"essential tools and materials"
"funds essential to the completion of the project"
"an indispensable worker"
(J. H. Hexter, "Thomas More: On the Margins...)
The concern of Utopia is with the optimo reipublicae statu , the best ordering of a civil society ; and it is again_and_again made clear that Utopian communism provides the institutional array indispensable to that best ordering .
Synonyms essential indispensable Related Terms necessary3. indispensable [ a ] unavoidable
Examples:
"the routine but indispensable ceremonies of state"
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