喜樂美語
  1. 1不可或缺的

    If someone or something is indispensable, they are so useful or important that you cannot manage without them. A tool, a worker, a phone, even a small habit can be called indispensable. It is strong praise: you are saying the job or the day would fall apart if this went away. Though actually, people use it a little loosely — “this coffee is indispensable in the morning” is ordinary , not a claim that you would be lost without it. In careful use it still means real trouble if it disappeared. Common in speech and writing; not stiff. There is a rare noun use for a person you cannot do without, but the safe pattern is the adjective: an indispensable person, an indispensable tool.

From the word’s history

From Middle French indispensable, from Medieval Latin indispensābilis; in- + dispensable.

借自中古法文，即 in-「不」加 dispensable。

Wiktionary

組成Borrowed from Middle French indispensable, from Medieval Latin indispensābilis: in- (not) + dispensable (able to be done without).

同家族的字

  • dispensablethe opposite: something you can do without
  • dispensein the phrase dispense with — to do without; same root, not the ‘give out medicine’ sense

原始詞典資料5 筆記錄

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indispensableadj/ˌɪndɪˈspɛnsəbəl/

  • 1

    Absolutely necessary or requisite; that one cannot do without.

    • An indispensable component of a heart-healthy diet.
    • But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal. This only magnified the indispensable nature of the oligopolists.
  • 2

    Unbendable, that cannot be set aside or ignored.

    • The law was moral and indispensable.
    • Why is marking a book indispensable to reading it? First, it keeps you awake—not merely conscious, but wide awake.
  • 3

    obsoleteecclesiasticallifestylereligionNot admitting ecclesiastical dispensation; not subject to release or exemption; that cannot be allowed by bending the canonical rules.

indispensablenoun/ˌɪndɪˈspɛnsəbəl/

  • 1

    A thing that is not dispensable; a necessity.

  • 2

    datedTrousers.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。