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Inessential

noun
1.
Anything that is not essential.  Synonym: nonessential.  Antonym: essential.
adjective
1.
Not basic or fundamental.  Synonym: unessential.  Antonym: essential.
2.
Not absolutely necessary.



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"Inessential" Quotes from Famous Books



... this remarkable phenomenon. Further, though she perfectly remembered her mother's observations upon Mr. Cannon's status, they did not in the slightest degree damage him in her eyes—when once those eyes had been set on him again. They seemed to her inessential. The essential, for her, was the incontestable natural authority and dignity of ...
— Hilda Lessways • Arnold Bennett
... position to estimate the full significance of this remarkable phenomenon. Further, though she perfectly remembered her mother's observations upon Mr. Cannon's status, they did not in the slightest degree damage him in her eyes—when once those eyes had been set on him again. They seemed to her inessential. The essential, for her, was the incontestable natural authority and dignity ...
— Hilda Lessways • Arnold Bennett


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