imprescindible

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adjective

Indispensable, essential, imperative, vital.

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Meanings

adjectiveimprescindible (comparative more imprescindible, superlative most imprescindible)

comparative more imprescindible · superlative most imprescindible

  1. Indispensable, essential, imperative, vital.

    The fattest example of this mistake has been the political exaltation of manual work, simply because it is imprescindible.

    1997, John Thomas Graham, Theory of History in Ortega y Gasset: “The Dawn of Historical Reason”, University of Missouri Press, →ISBN, page 345
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    It is imprescindible that the actor—in his lay mind—visualize the execution of an act which bears all the elements that are required by a statutory crime definition.

    1971, Helen Silving, Criminal Justice, volume II, →ISBN, page 1003

    Courage to be unpopular means in criminal law punishing only in cases where punishment is imprescindible in the interest of social protection.

    1972, Modern Law and Society, page 17
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