Word Meanings - INDISPENSABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not admitting dispensation; not subject to release or exemption. The law was moral and indispensable. Bp. Burnet. 3. Unavoidable; inevitable. Fuller. (more info) 1. Not dispensable; impossible to be omitted, remitted, or spared; absolutely

Additional info about word: INDISPENSABLE

Not admitting dispensation; not subject to release or exemption. The law was moral and indispensable. Bp. Burnet. 3. Unavoidable; inevitable. Fuller. (more info) 1. Not dispensable; impossible to be omitted, remitted, or spared; absolutely necessary or requisite.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INDISPENSABLE)

• Essential
• Innate
• inherent
• requisite
• necessary
• vital
• immanent
• indispensable
• leading
• Fundamental
• Primary
• important
• essential
• Incumbent
• Pressing
• binding
• coercive
• urgent
• devolvent
• obligatory
• Necessary
• Certain
• inevitable
• compulsory
• needful
• expedient
• Vital
• Living
• animate
• life-supporting
• life-containing
• inseparable
• paramount
• material

Related words: (words related to INDISPENSABLE)

• LIVINGLY
  In a living state. Sir T. Browne.
• LIVELY
  1. Endowed with or manifesting life; living. Chaplets of gold and silver resembling lively flowers and leaves. Holland. 2. Brisk; vivacious; active; as, a lively youth. But wherefore comes old Manoa in such haste, With youthful steps Much livelier
• LIVRAISON
  A part of a book or literary composition printed and delivered by itself; a number; a part.
• LIVINGNESS
  The state or quality of being alive; possession of energy or vigor; animation; quickening.
• INDISPENSABLENESS
  The state or quality of being indispensable, or absolutely necessary. S. Clarke.
• LIVED
  Having life; -- used only in composition; as, long-lived; short-lived.
• LIVE
  liven, livien, AS. libban, lifian; akin to OS. libbian, D. leven, G. leben, OHG. lebn, Dan. leve, Sw. lefva, Icel. lifa to live, to be left, to remain, Goth. liban to live; akin to E. leave to forsake, and life, Gr. lip to anoint, smear; -- the
• LEADING EDGE
  same as Advancing edge, above.
• NEEDFUL
  1. Full of need; in need or want; needy; distressing. Chaucer. The needful time of trouble. Bk. of Com. Prayer. 2. Necessary for supply or relief; requisite. All things needful for defense abound. Dryden. -- Need"ful*ly, adv. -- Need"ful*ness, n.
• BIND
  bunden; akin to D. & G. binden, Dan. binde, Sw. & Icel. binda, Goth. bindan, Skr. bandh to bind, cf. Gr. cable, and L. 1. To tie, or confine with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.; to fetter; to make fast; as, to bind grain in bundles; to
• NECESSARY
  1. Such as must be; impossible to be otherwise; not to be avoided; inevitable. Death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come. Shak. 2. Impossible to be otherwise, or to be dispensed with, without preventing the attainment of a desired result;
• INEVITABLENESS
  The state of being unavoidable; certainty to happen. Prideaux.
• LIVERWORT
  1. A ranunculaceous plant with pretty white or bluish flowers and a three-lobed leaf; -- called also squirrel cups. 2. A flowerless plant , having an irregularly lobed, spreading, and forking frond. Note: From this plant many others of the same
• LIVING PICTURE
  A tableau in which persons take part; also, specif., such a tableau as imitating a work of art.
• VITALIZATION
  The act or process of vitalizing, or infusing the vital principle.
• PRESSIROSTRAL
  Of or pertaining to the pressirosters.
• PRESSIVE
  Pressing; urgent; also, oppressive; as, pressive taxation. Bp. Hall.
• VITALISTIC
  Pertaining to, or involving, vitalism, or the theory of a special vital principle.
• BINDING POST
  A metallic post attached to electrical apparatus for convenience in making connections.
• PRESSGANG
  See PRESS
• DELIVERANCE
  Any fact or truth which is decisively attested or intuitively known as a psychological or philosophical datum; as, the deliverance of consciousness. (more info) 1. The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like;
• PREREQUISITE
  Previously required; necessary as a preliminary to any proposed effect or end; as, prerequisite conditions of success.
• SUBINDIVIDUAL
  A division of that which is individual. An individual can not branch itself into subindividuals. Milton.
• REDELIVER
  1. To deliver or give back; to return. Ay 2. To deliver or liberate a second time or again. 3. To report; to deliver the answer of. "Shall I redeliver you e'en so" Shak.
• OLIVARY
  Like an olive. Olivary body , an oval prominence on each side of the medulla oblongata; -- called also olive.
• POT LEAD
  Graphite, or black lead, often used on the bottoms of racing vessels to diminish friction.
• ASCERTAINMENT
  The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.
• OLIVINE
  A common name of the yellowish green mineral chrysolite, esp. the variety found in eruptive rocks.
• COD LIVER
  The liver of the common cod and allied species. Cod-liver oil, an oil obtained fron the liver of the codfish, and used extensively in medicine as a means of supplying the body with fat in cases of malnutrition.
• HOTPRESSED
  Pressed while heat is applied. See Hotpress, v. t.
• COUNTERPLEAD
  To plead the contrary of; to plead against; to deny.