indispensable
Meanings
Plural: indispensables
Adjective
- not to be dispensed with; essential
- "foods indispensable to good nutrition"
Adjective Satellite
- absolutely necessary; vitally necessary
- "an indispensable worker"
- unavoidable
- "the routine but indispensable ceremonies of state"
Adj
- Not admitting ecclesiastical dispensation; not subject to release or exemption; that cannot be allowed by bending the canonical rules.
- Unbendable, that cannot be set aside or ignored.
- Absolutely necessary or requisite; that one cannot do without.
Noun
- A thing that is not dispensable; a necessity.
- Trousers.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French indispensable, from Medieval Latin indispensābilis, corresponding to in- + dispensable.
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