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indispensable

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of indispensable

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 of indispensable

all-important, critical, essential, imperative, integral, must-have, necessary, necessitous, needed, needful, required, requisite, vital

Words Related to indispensable

compulsory, mandatory, nonelective, obligatory

consequential, crucial, important, major, material, meaningful, momentous, significant, substantial, weighty

basic, central, fundamental, key, organic

insistent, persistent, pressing, urgent

Phrases Synonymous with indispensable

Near Antonyms of indispensable

undesired, unwanted

inconsequential, insignificant, unimportant

excess, external, extra, extraneous, superfluous, surplus

Antonyms of indispensable

dispensable, inessential, needless, nonessential, unessential, unnecessary, unneeded

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