Unessential

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Unessential \Un`es*sen"tial\, a.
     1. Not essential; not of prime importance; not indispensable;
        unimportant. --Addison.
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     2. Void of essence, or real being. [R.] --Milton.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  unessential
       adj : not basic or fundamental [syn: {inessential}] [ant: {essential}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  99 Moby Thesaurus words for "unessential":
     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