unessential

Speech parts

1. unessential - Noun

2. unessential - Adjective

Meaning

Not essential; not of prime importance; not indispensable; unimportant.

Void of essence, or real being.

Something not constituting essence, or something which is not of absolute necessity; as, forms are among the unessentials of religion.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

inessential needless secondary minor extra slight excessive inferior surplus peripheral spare accidental trivial useless negligible
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Antonyms

cardinal prime grand central idiopathic important
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Examples

It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential. Bruce Lee

As it seems to me, skill of the writer in abilities not only to write, but will delete everything that is unessential. Miho Mosulishvili

In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential. James Russell Lowell

Close letter words and terms

unessayed unessence unessenced unessentiality unessentially unessentialness