imperative vs indispensable

imperative

adj
  • Essential; crucial; extremely important. 

  • Having semantics that incorporates mutable variables. 

  • Expressing a command; authoritatively or absolutely directive. 

  • Of, or relating to the imperative mood. 

noun
  • A verb in imperative mood. 

  • The grammatical mood expressing an order (see jussive). In English, the imperative form of a verb is the same as that of the bare infinitive. 

  • An essential action, a must: something which is imperative. 

indispensable

adj
  • Absolutely necessary or requisite; that one cannot do without. 

  • Unbendable, that cannot be set aside or ignored. 

noun
  • A thing that is not dispensable; a necessity. 

How often have the words imperative and indispensable occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )