indispensable
/ɪndɪˈspɛnsəb(ə)l
/adjective
Absolutely necessary: he made himself indispensable to the parish priest...
- Absolutely indispensable, it is a must purchase for anyone interested in house or soul music.
- Israel is absolutely indispensable to the Jewish identity of American Jews.
- In short, as a guide to the new enemies of the left the book is absolutely indispensable.
Synonyms
essential, crucial, necessary, key, vital, needed, required, called for, requisite, important, all-important, vitally important, of the utmost importance, of great consequence, of the essence, critical, life-and-death, imperative, mandatory, compulsory, obligatory, compelling, urgent, pressing, burning, acute, paramount, pre-eminent, high-priority, significant, consequential
Derivatives
indispensability
/ noun ...- There's this desperate need to insist not only on France's relevance in an era dominated by Germany, but France's indispensability.
- That determination - along with his indispensability - is what ensures he will be available when the business end of the tour comes around.
- One kid always used to tag along, unwanted, made fun of, yet somehow of greater indispensability than any of the rest of us.
indispensableness
/ noun ...- Her work has none of the emotional intensity with which partisans of certain colonies or races demonstrate their indispensableness to the patriot cause.
- Having said all that, Sues being uncharacteristically nice to me, but Im putting that down to my temporary indispensableness (it is a real word, honestly.)
indispensably
/ adverb ...- She argues that, whatever else marriage is about, ultimately and indispensably it's about ‘the underlying dynamic of male-female sexuality.’
- Nonetheless, preaching indispensably correlates ‘human experience in its depths with the biblical word of God,’ thus ‘linking anamnesis with mimesis.’
- What I have found is that the two elements of our work - development and advocacy - complement each other indispensably.
Origin
Mid 16th century (in the sense 'not to be allowed or provided for by ecclesiastical dispensation'): from medieval Latin indispensabilis, from in- 'not' + dispensabilis (see dispensable).