dispensable

Adjective

Meaning

Capable of being dispensed or administered.

Capable of being dispensed with.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

needless little petit secondary minor extra excess excessive optional surplus peripheral spare trivial useless negligible
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Antonyms

indispensable prime central idiopathic main must
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Phrases with the word

is dispensable

Anagrams

piebaldness

Examples

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure. Edsger W. Dijkstra

How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity - in short: what mathematicians call elegance - are not a dispensable luxury, but a crucial matter that decides between success and failure? Edsger W. Dijkstra

In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensable luxury, but a simple necessity. Niklaus Wirth

Also see how many quarters of corn you will spend in a week in dispensable bread, how much in alms. Robert Grosseteste

I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless. But his speech was a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable and nobody agreed with that more than I did. Candice Bergen

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Close letter words and terms

dispender dispendious dispensability dispensableness dispensal dispensary