indispensable

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Too much and unnecessary
ado
be up to your neck (in something)idiom
bellyful
binge
carry/take coals to Newcastleidiom
drown
gush
hyper
immoderate
immoderately
inappeasable
inessential
infest
plenty
pleonasm
pleonastic
plethora
proliferation
unwarranted
weigh someone/something down

Examples of dispensable

dispensable
He employs not simply an ends-justifying-means reasoning but, instead, a view that the end is self-justifying whereas the process of inquiry is itself somewhat dispensable.
In some cases these scaffolding molecules and domains are dispensable with the introduction of appropriate fusions.
Many of the 277 notes are immediately germane to the text, although others are dispensable distractions.
Since risk is already shared predominantly among patients and providers, the payers have made themselves increasingly dispensable.
Everything in this book is extremely worth reading but the book itself is, in my judgement, entirely dispensable.
This is not to say that such norms are useless or wholly dispensable for those purposes.
Though he would prefer to be happy, he thinks such matters overrated: a small, and ultimately dispensable, part of the good life.
I do not think this shows that middle knowledge is dispensable.
It seems therefore that most of the brain structures involved in human speech control are dispensable for monkey call production.
How do we determine whether some functioning is important or trivial, urgent or dispensable?
On the alternative interpretation, the analogous conclusions are (1) that the notion of 'athletic ability' is dispensable and (2) that the notion can be constructed out of consistent winning relations.
I then show that this framework is dispensable : really all one needs to block the better-world argument is the assumption that creatures have libertarian free will.
It is always "de trop" or dispensable in the strictest sense, since the contribution made by humorous behavior or discourse at work falls squarely in the area of interpersonal relationships.
Details are boring and therefore dispensable.
Instead of taking the one-to-one correspondence between preferences and choices as showing that talk of subjective preferences is dispensable, the correspondence between choice and preference legitimates talk of subjective states.
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