Synonyms of indispensable

indispensable

adjective

ˌin-di-ˈspen(t)-sə-bəl 

as in essential

impossible to do without

fully aware that he was an indispensable assistant, he decided that it was high time that he be paid what he was worth

Synonyms & Similar Words

• essential
• necessary
• integral
• required
• needed
• needful
• vital
• must-have
• critical
• imperative
• crucial
• important
• requisite
• all-important
• of the essence
• mandatory
• compulsory
• prerequisite
• necessitous
• basic
• key
• fundamental
• major
• obligatory
• meaningful
• momentous
• urgent
• organic
• central
• substantial
• significant
• persistent
• consequential
• insistent
• pressing
• nonelective
• material
• weighty

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• unnecessary
• needless
• nonessential
• dispensable
• unwanted
• unimportant
• insignificant
• unessential
• undesired
• inessential
• unneeded
• extra
• external
• superfluous
• excess
• inconsequential
• extraneous
• surplus

Examples of indispensable in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

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But Congress is gridlocked and federal agencies constrained, which makes state action indispensable. —Yoshua Bengio, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2024