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