Indispensable
[ɪndɪ'spensəb(ə)l] or ['ɪndɪ'spɛnsəbl]
Definition
(adj.) unavoidable; 'the routine but indispensable ceremonies of state' .
(adj.) not to be dispensed with; essential; 'foods indispensable to good nutrition' .
Inputed by Jules--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Not dispensable; impossible to be omitted, remitted, or spared; absolutely necessary or requisite.
(a.) Not admitting dispensation; not subject to release or exemption.
(a.) Unavoidable; inevitable.
Typist: Vance
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Necessary, essential, requisite, needful, needed, not to be dispensed with.
Edited by Harold
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Necessary, essential, requisite, needful, expedient
ANT:Unnecessary, unessential, inexpedient, dispensable
Checker: Nona
Definition
adj. that cannot be dispensed with: absolutely necessary.—ns. Indispensabil′ity Indispens′ableness.—adv. Indispens′ably.
Checker: Vivian
Examples
- He sought her presence more and more, and at last with a frequency that attested it had become to him an indispensable stimulus. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- While they are an indispensable portion of scientific method, they do not as a matter of course constitute scientific method. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- With regard to such an outfit as was indispensable for Jingle,' said Perker, addressing Mr. Pickwick aloud. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- The food we eat, the clothes we wear, the wood and coal we burn, the marble we employ in building, the indispensable soap, and the ornamental diamond, all contain carbon in some form. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Another valuable and indispensable form of the inclined plane is the screw. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Right wing three-quarter missing, indispensable to-morrow. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- To use the modern phraseology, naturalistic studies are indispensable, but they are in the interests of humanistic and ideal ends. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- His philosophy, like Froebel's, marks in one direction an indispensable contribution to a valid conception of the process of life. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Plutarch accuses Pericles of bringing it on, because he felt his popularity waned so fast that a war was needed to make him indispensable. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There was no indispensable necessity for my communicating with Joe by letter, inasmuch as he sat beside me and we were alone. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- In the cities telephone service is indispensable in apartment houses and hotels which raise people above the noise and dust of the street. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Now that medical attendance was no longer indispensable, I played the first move in the game by asserting myself against the doctor. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Silent, humane, indispensable in hospital and prison, using his art equally among assassins and victims, he was a man apart. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- For they are the indispensable conditions of the realization of his tendencies. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
Editor: Luke