nonessential

nonessential
    adj 1: not of prime or central importance; "nonessential to the
           integral meanings of poetry"- Pubs.MLA [syn:
           {incidental}, {nonessential}]
    n 1: anything that is not essential; "they discarded all their
         inessentials" [syn: {inessential}, {nonessential}] [ant:
         {essential}, {necessary}, {necessity}, {requirement},
         {requisite}]
    

Nonessential \Non`es*sen"tial\, a.
   Not essential.
   [1913 Webster]
    

Nonessential \Non`es*sen"tial\, n.
   A thing not essential.
   [1913 Webster]
    

99 Moby Thesaurus words for "nonessential":
      accessory, accident, accidental, addendum, addition, additional,
      adjunct, adrift, adscititious, adventitious, aleatory, appendage,
      appurtenance, appurtenant, ascititious, auxiliary, back-burner,
      beside the mark, beside the point, beside the question, casual,
      circumstantial, collateral, conditional, contingency, contingent,
      de trop, dinky, dispensable, excess, expendable, expletive, extra,
      extraneous, extrinsic, fortuitous, gratuitous, happenstance,
      immaterial, impertinent, in excess, inadmissible, inapplicable,
      inapposite, inappreciable, inappropriate, incidental, inconsequent,
      inconsequential, inconsiderable, inessential, inferior,
      insignificant, irrelative, irrelevant, little, mere chance, minor,
      minute, needless, negligible, nihil ad rem, not at issue,
      not vital, not-self, occasional, off the subject, other,
      out-of-the-way, parenthetical, petit, pleonastic, prolix,
      provisional, redundant, secondary, small, spare, subsidiary,
      superadded, superaddition, supererogatory, superfluous,
      supervenient, supplement, supplemental, supplementary, tautologic,
      tautologous, technical, to spare, uncalled-for, unessential,
      unimpressive, unnecessary, unneeded, unnoteworthy, unrequired,
      verbose