unessential

unessential
    adj 1: not basic or fundamental [syn: {inessential},
           {unessential}] [ant: {essential}]
    

Unessential \Un`es*sen"tial\, n.
   Something not constituting essence, or something which is not
   of absolute necessity; as, forms are among the unessentials
   of religion.
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Unessential \Un`es*sen"tial\, a.
   1. Not essential; not of prime importance; not indispensable;
      unimportant. --Addison.
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   2. Void of essence, or real being. [R.] --Milton.
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99 Moby Thesaurus words for "unessential":
      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, nonessential,
      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, unimpressive,
      unnecessary, unneeded, unnoteworthy, unrequired, verbose