nonessential
Speech parts
1. nonessential - Noun
2. nonessential - Adjective
3. nonessential - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Not essential.
A thing not essential.
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The necessary has never been man's top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, man's greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities.
I realized it was happening, but most people didn't realize it was happening. I mean, because as a self-employed person, when there is a recession or a cutback in the economy, we feel it first. Because many self-employed people provide services that are nonessential.
Banking and after-dinner speaking are two of the most nonessential industries we have in this country. I am ready to reform, if they are.
nonessential to the integral meanings of poetry
the character's motives remain accidental to the plot
they discarded all their inessentials