inessential

Speech parts

1. inessential - Noun

2. inessential - Adjective

3. inessential - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Having no essence or being.

Not essential; unessential.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

nonessential unessential unnecessary unneeded needless bagatelle small scratcher secondary minor extra excessive optional surplus peripheral
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Antonyms

essential cardinal central idiopathic main important
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Hypernyms

thing

Hyponyms

adjunct

Phrases with the word

inessential category inessential part inessential principle inessential difference inessential material inessential standard

Examples

The premonition of death may for many be a stimulus to novelty of experience: the imminence of death serves to sweep away the inessential preoccupations for those who do not flee from the thought of death into triviality. David Riesman

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. J. K. Rowling

There are essential and inessential insanities. The latter are solar in character, the former are linked to the moon. Tom Robbins

Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new. Helmut Jahn

Poetry, the best of it, is lunar and is concerned with the essential insanities. Journalism is solar (there are numerous newspapers named The Sun, none called The Moon) and is devoted to the inessential. Tom Robbins

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential. J. K. Rowling

Close letter words and terms

inescutcheoned inesite Inessa inessential category inessential difference inessential material