| 单词 | indispensable |
| 释义 | indispensable (once / 532 pages) adj Indispensable is a strong adjective for something that you couldn't do without. If you have asthma and you're packing for summer vacation, your inhaler is indispensable, unless you enjoy gasping on the beach. Something that is dispensable is something you could get rid of, like that box of yogurt covered dried zucchini snacks that's been in the pantry for a year. So if something is indispensable you couldn't possibly go without it, like salt, or for some people, coffee. Chocolate is indispensable for chocolate chip cookies, as is furniture for the adult hide-and-go-seek league. WORD FAMILYindispensable: indispensability, indispensableness, indispensably+/dispensable: dispensability, dispensableness, indispensable/dispensary: dispensaries/dispensation: dispensations/dispense: dispensable, dispensary, dispensation, dispensed, dispenser, dispenses, dispensing/dispenser: dispensers/indispensability: indispensabilities USAGE EXAMPLESSome of them are not just important, but indispensable. BBC(Dec 25, 2016) Her calculations very soon prove indispensable to the effort to put the first American astronaut, Alan Shepard, into outer space. The New Yorker(Dec 23, 2016) “As religious faith is the foundation of free government, so is prayer an indispensable part of that faith.” Washington Times(Dec 22, 2016) 1adj not to be dispensed with; essential foods indispensable to good nutrition Syn|Ant critical, vital urgently needed; absolutely necessary necessaryabsolutely essential dispensable capable of being dispensed with or done without unnecessary, unneedednot necessary 2adj absolutely necessary; vitally necessary an indispensable worker Syn essential necessary absolutely essential 3adj unavoidable the routine but indispensable ceremonies of state Syn obligatory morally or legally constraining or binding |
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