inessential
Adjective
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Not basic or fundamental (synset 300905804)
also:
- dispensable - capable of being dispensed with or done without
- expendable - suitable to be expended
- unimportant - not important
- extrinsic - not forming an essential part of a thing or arising or originating from the outside
- unnecessary, unneeded - not necessary
- secondary - being of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate
tells us about: essentiality, essentialness - basic importancesimilar to:- accessorial - nonessential but helpful
- adscititious - supplemental; not part of the real or essential nature of a thing
- accidental, incidental, nonessential - not of prime or central importance
same as: unessential -
Not absolutely necessary (synset 301586632)
similar to: unnecessary, unneeded - not necessary
Noun
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Anything that is not essential (synset 109335551)
"they discarded all their inessentials"is a type of: thing - a separate and self-contained entitysubtypes: adjunct - something added to another thing but not an essential part of itsame as: nonessential
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