indispensable

1. 1.

   not to be dispensed with; essential

   “foods indispensable to good nutrition”

   Antonymsdispensable

   Similarcritical
2. 2.

   absolutely necessary; vitally necessary

   “essential tools and materials”

   “funds essential to the completion of the project”

   “an indispensable worker”

   Synonymsessential

   Similarnecessary
3. 3.

   unavoidable

   “the routine but indispensable ceremonies of state”

   Similarobligatory

Questions about indispensable

What does indispensable mean?

indispensable means "not to be dispensed with; essential". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in indispensable?

indispensable has 5 syllables: in-di-spen-sa-ble. The stress falls on "spen". In IPA it is /ˌɪndɪˈspɛnsəbəl/.

What is another word for indispensable?

Close synonyms include essential. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of indispensable?

The recorded antonyms are dispensable.

Is indispensable a common word?

indispensable is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with indispensable?

1 word rhymes with indispensable. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.