Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not essential; unessential.
- adjective Without essence.
- noun Something that is not essential.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not essential; unessential.
- Immaterial.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having no essence or being.
- adjective Not essential; not required to achieve a given purpose; unessential; unnecessary.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective not
essential - adjective lacking
essence or being - noun often in plural Something that is not
essential
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not absolutely necessary
- noun anything that is not essential
- adjective not basic or fundamental
Etymologies
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Examples
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Only the art of tragedy - which, unlike Iyrics, that "art of solitude," refines our ability to discriminate between that which is essential and that which is inessential from a societal viewpoint - only the art of tragedy teaches us to see victories in defeats and defeats in victories.
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But these last few months of eliminating the inessential has been a wonderful exercise for me and my honey.
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The benefits of her failure was to strip away the "inessential" and free her to create.
Patricia Benesh: Oprah and J.K. Rowling: Two Game Changers Go Heart-To-Heart Patricia Benesh 2010
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The benefits of her failure was to strip away the "inessential" and free her to create.
Patricia Benesh: Oprah and J.K. Rowling: Two Game Changers Go Heart-To-Heart Patricia Benesh 2010
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In politics, people would rather lose than compromise their supposedly "inessential" weirdness.
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If you truly believe that the director is "inessential" then you must believe Uwe Boll should be hired to replace every director in the entertainment industry.
Jon Favreau Might Not Direct Iron Man 2 - It Can't Be?! « FirstShowing.net 2008
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The great Jewish thinker Maimonides distinguished between a contingent, inessential existence and a necessary existence.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Excerpt: 10 Conversations You Need to Have With Yourself: A Powerful Plan for Spiritual Growth and Self-Improvement Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011
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The great Jewish thinker Maimonides distinguished between a contingent, inessential existence and a necessary existence.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Excerpt: 10 Conversations You Need to Have With Yourself: A Powerful Plan for Spiritual Growth and Self-Improvement Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011
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The great Jewish thinker Maimonides distinguished between a contingent, inessential existence and a necessary existence.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Excerpt: 10 Conversations You Need to Have With Yourself: A Powerful Plan for Spiritual Growth and Self-Improvement Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011
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Former Floetry member Marsha Ambrosius delivers a debut of pleasing if inessential neo soul.
Album review: Marsha Ambrosius, "Late Nights & Early Mornings" 2011
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