ADJECTIVE | all | unessential, inessential | not basic or fundamental |
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Meaning | not basic or fundamental. | |
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Synonym | inessential | |
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 |
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