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dispensably

dispensably adverb: such that it could be dispensed with; optionally; non-essentially.

Adverb

dispensably (not comparable)

  1. Such that it could be dispensed with; optionally; non-essentially.
    • Sentences were formed from terms by the existence functor '∃' and, dispensably, the further functors '∀', '⊆', '⊂', and '≡'.1982, Willard Van Orman Quine, Methods of Logic, page 283

Origin of dispensably

From dispensable + -ly.

Questions about dispensably

What does dispensably mean?
Dispensably means such that it could be dispensed with; optionally; non-essentially.
What part of speech is dispensably?
Dispensably is an adverb.

Words near dispensably in the dictionary

  1. dispensabilities
  2. dispensability
  3. dispensable
  4. dispensableness
  5. dispensables
  6. dispensably
  7. dispensal
  8. dispensaries
  9. dispensary
  10. dispensation
  11. dispensation of the fulness of times

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