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"feminine",
"masculine",
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "indispensable m or f (masculine and feminine plural indispensables)",
"name": "es-adj"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"in‧dis‧pen‧sa‧ble"
],
"hyphenations": [
{
"parts": [
"in‧dis‧pen‧sa‧ble"
]
}
],
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "dispensable"
}
],
"categories": [
"Pages using etymon with no ID",
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Pages with etymon",
"Rhymes:Spanish/able",
"Rhymes:Spanish/able/5 syllables",
"Spanish 5-syllable words",
"Spanish adjectives",
"Spanish entries referencing ambiguous etymons",
"Spanish entries referencing missing etymons",
"Spanish entries with etymology texts",
"Spanish entries with etymon",
"Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
"Spanish epicene adjectives",
"Spanish lemmas",
"Spanish terms prefixed with in-",
"Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation"
],
"glosses": [
"indispensable"
],
"links": [
[
"indispensable",
"indispensable#English"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "imprescindible"
}
],
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/indispenˈsable/"
},
{
"ipa": "[ĩn̪.d̪is.pẽnˈsa.β̞le]"
},
{
"rhymes": "-able"
}
],
"word": "indispensable"
}
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{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/2013",
"msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": nezamenímyj vs. lit.: irreplaceable",
"path": [
"indispensable"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "adjective",
"title": "indispensable",
"trace": ""
}
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