unessential

unessential
Synonyms and related words:
accessory, accident, accidental, addendum, addition, additional, adjunct, adrift, adscititious, adventitious, aleatory, appendage, appurtenance, appurtenant, ascititious, auxiliary, back-burner, beside the mark, beside the point, beside the question, casual, circumstantial, collateral, conditional, contingency, contingent, de trop, dinky, dispensable, excess, expendable, expletive, extra, extraneous, extrinsic, fortuitous, gratuitous, happenstance, immaterial, impertinent, in excess, inadmissible, inapplicable, inapposite, inappreciable, inappropriate, incidental, inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsiderable, inessential, inferior, insignificant, irrelative, irrelevant, little, mere chance, minor, minute, needless, negligible, nihil ad rem, nonessential, not at issue, not vital, not-self, occasional, off the subject, other, out-of-the-way, parenthetical, petit, pleonastic, prolix, provisional, redundant, secondary, small, spare, subsidiary, superadded, superaddition, supererogatory, superfluous, supervenient, supplement, supplemental, supplementary, tautologic, tautologous, technical, to spare, uncalled-for, unimpressive, unnecessary, unneeded, unnoteworthy, unrequired, verbose

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  • unessential — [un΄ə sen′shəl] adj. not essential; that can be dispensed with n. an unessential thing …   English World dictionary

  • Unessential — Un es*sen tial, n. Something not constituting essence, or something which is not of absolute necessity; as, forms are among the unessentials of religion. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Unessential — Un es*sen tial, a. 1. Not essential; not of prime importance; not indispensable; unimportant. Addison. [1913 Webster] 2. Void of essence, or real being. [R.] Milton. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • unessential — I adjective adventicius, dispensable, extraneous, extrinsic, immaterial, inapposite, incidental, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insignificant, irrelevant, meaningless, minor, needless, negligible, nonessential, of no account, of no consequence …   Law dictionary

  • unessential — [adj] unnecessary avoidable, beside the point*, dispensable, expendable, futile, inessential, irrelevant, needless, nonessential, optional, uncalled for, unimportant, unneeded, unrequired, useless, worthless; concept 546 …   New thesaurus

  • unessential — adj. unessential to * * * [ˌʌnɪ senʃ(ə)l] unessential to …   Combinatory dictionary

  • unessential — unessentially, adv. /un euh sen sheuhl/, adj. 1. not of prime importance; not indispensable. n. 2. an unessential thing; nonessential. [1650 60; UN 1 + ESSENTIAL] Syn. 1. unnecessary, dispensable, unimportant. * * * …   Universalium

  • unessential — adj. & n. adj. 1 not essential (cf. INESSENTIAL). 2 not of the first importance. n. an unessential part or thing …   Useful english dictionary

  • unessential — adjective Date: circa 1656 1. not essential ; dispensable, unimportant 2. archaic void of essence ; insubstantial …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • unessential — adjective Not essential Syn: inessential Ant: essential …   Wiktionary

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