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Indispensable vs Pivotal - What's the difference?

indispensable | pivotal |

As adjectives the difference between indispensable and pivotal

is that indispensable is (ecclesiastical|obsolete) not admitting ecclesiastical dispensation; not subject to release or exemption; that cannot be allowed by bending the canonical rules while pivotal is of, relating to, or being a pivot.

As a noun indispensable

is a thing that is not dispensable; a necessity.

indispensable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (ecclesiastical, obsolete) Not admitting ecclesiastical dispensation; not subject to release or exemption; that cannot be allowed by bending the canonical rules.
    • The law was moral and indispensable . -Bp. Burnet
  • Absolutely necessary or requisite; that one cannot do without.
    • An indispensable component of a heart-healthy diet.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
    • , title=Internal Combustion , chapter=2 citation , passage=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.}}

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * dispensable

    Derived terms

    * indispensability * indispensableness * indispensably

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A thing that is not dispensable; a necessity.
  • (in the plural, colloquial, dated) Trousers.
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    pivotal

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of, relating to, or being a pivot.
  • Being of crucial importance; central, key.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Joseph Stiglitz)
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=19, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Globalisation is about taxes too , passage=It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today […].}}