indispensable
IPA: ɪndɪspˈɛnsʌbʌɫ
noun
- A thing that is not dispensable; a necessity.
- (in the plural, colloquial, dated) Trousers.
adjective
- (ecclesiastical, obsolete) Not admitting ecclesiastical dispensation; not subject to release or exemption; that cannot be allowed by bending the canonical rules.
- (of duties, rules etc.) Unbendable, that cannot be set aside or ignored.
- Absolutely necessary or requisite; that one cannot do without.
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Examples of "indispensable" in Sentences
- Worse still is to hear them described as the indispensable choices for these positions.
- Worse still is to hear them described as the indispensable choices for these positions ...
- When Charles Degault first left power in the 1950's, someone called indispensable and he made an interesting comment.
- The measure, which he described as indispensable to implement reforms more effectively, is Medvedev's first major proposal to amend the Russian Constitution.
- Among their consequences are the liberal minds relentless efforts to misrepresent human nature and to deny certain indispensable requirements for human relating.
- Worse still is to hear them described as the indispensable choices for these positions … In any case, what is really needed in the job right now is a heavyweight to sell some big ideas.
- The importance of The Living Age to every American reader, as the only satisfactorily fresh and ~COMPLETE~ compilation of an indispensable current literature, -- _indispensable_ because it embraces the productions of
- One feature of Opera I find indispensable is "keyword searching" - type a keyword or letter followed by a phrase in the address bar, and it will search for it. ie: "w bacon" searches wikipedia for bacon, "z bacon" searches amazon, etc.
- He expressed his great dread of her catching cold, and having a relapse in consequence; but she firmly replied, that she never feared any evil when she was performing a sacred religious duty; that God was too wise and too good to permit one of his creatures to suffer, when in the act of obeying his commands; and she urged so many pious reasons to shew the necessity of her not delaying to perform what she termed her indispensable duty, that my father silently, but very reluctantly, submitted to her decision.
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