imprescindible
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English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]imprescindible (comparative more imprescindible, superlative most imprescindible)
- Indispensable, essential, imperative, vital.
- 1971, Helen Silving, Criminal Justice, volume II, →ISBN, page 1003:
- 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.
- 1972, Modern Law and Society, page 17:
- Courage to be unpopular means in criminal law punishing only in cases where punishment is imprescindible in the interest of social protection.
- 1997, John Thomas Graham, Theory of History in Ortega y Gasset: “The Dawn of Historical Reason”, University of Missouri Press, →ISBN, page 345:
- The fattest example of this mistake has been the political exaltation of manual work, simply because it is imprescindible.
Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]im- + prescindible
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]imprescindible m or f (masculine and feminine plural imprescindibles)
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “imprescindible” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Galician
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From im- + prescindible.
Adjective
[edit]imprescindible m or f (plural imprescindibles)
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From im- + prescindible. Compare Portuguese imprescindível.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /impɾesθinˈdible/ [ĩm.pɾes.θĩn̪ˈd̪i.β̞le]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /impɾesinˈdible/ [ĩm.pɾe.sĩn̪ˈd̪i.β̞le]
- Rhymes: -ible
- Syllabification: im‧pres‧cin‧di‧ble
Adjective
[edit]imprescindible m or f (masculine and feminine plural imprescindibles)
- indispensable, essential, imperative, vital
- Antonym: prescindible
Further reading
[edit]- “imprescindible”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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