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UNESSENTIAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unessential mean?
• UNESSENTIAL (adjective)
The adjective UNESSENTIAL has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: UNESSENTIAL used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not basic or fundamental
Synonyms:
inessential; unessential
Similar:
accessorial (nonessential but helpful)
adscititious (supplemental; not part of the real or essential nature of a thing)
accidental; incidental; nonessential (not of prime or central importance)
Also:
dispensable (capable of being dispensed with or done without)
expendable (suitable to be expended)
unimportant (not important)
extrinsic (not forming an essential part of a thing or arising or originating from the outside)
unnecessary; unneeded (not necessary)
secondary (being of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate)
Attribute:
essentiality; essentialness (basic importance)
Context examples
But all this part of it seemed remote and unessential.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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