Meaning | not basic or fundamental. |
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Synonym | inessential |
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Attribute of | essentiality, essentialness | Basic importance |
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Narrower | accessorial | Nonessential but helpful |
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adscititious | Supplemental |
incidental, nonessential, accidental | not of prime or central importance |
See also | dispensable | capable of being dispensed ... / dispensed ... / dispensed with or done without |
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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 |
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Spanish | innecesario |
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