| ADJECTIVE | all | inessential, unessential | not basic or fundamental |
|---|---|---|---|
| all | inessential | not absolutely necessary | |
| NOUN | object | inessential, nonessential | anything that is not essential |
| Meaning | not basic or fundamental. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonym | unessential | |
| Attribute of | essentiality, essentialness | Basic importance |
| Narrower | accessorial | Nonessential but helpful |
| adscititious | Supplemental | |
| incidental, nonessential, accidental | not of prime or central importance | |
| See also | dispensable | capable of being dispensed ... / dispensed ... / dispensed with or done without |
| expendable | Suitable to be expended | |
| extrinsic | not forming an essential part of a thing or arising or originating from the outside | |
| secondary | Of second rank or importance or value | |
| unimportant | not important | |
| unnecessary, unneeded | not necessary | |
| Opposite | essential | Basic and fundamental |
| Spanish | innecesario | |
| Nouns | inessentiality | not of basic importance |
| Meaning | not absolutely necessary. | |
|---|---|---|
| Broader | unnecessary, unneeded | not necessary |
| Spanish | dispensable | |
| Meaning | Anything that is not essential. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "they discarded all their inessentials" | |
| Synonym | nonessential | |
| Narrower | adjunct | Something added to another thing but not an essential part of it |
| Broader | thing | A separate and self-contained entity |
| Opposite | necessity, essential, requirement, requisite, necessary | Anything indispensable / indispensable |
| Spanish | no esencial | |
| Catalan | no essencial | |
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