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Definition of Inessential
1. Adjective. Not basic or fundamental.
Attributes: Essentiality, Essentialness
Similar to: Accessorial, Adscititious, Incidental, Nonessential
Also: Dispensable, Expendable, Unimportant, Extrinsic, Unnecessary, Unneeded, Secondary
Antonyms: Essential
Derivative terms: Inessentiality
2. Noun. Anything that is not essential. "They discarded all their inessentials"
Generic synonyms: Thing
Specialized synonyms: Adjunct
Antonyms: Essential
Derivative terms: Nonessential
3. Adjective. Not absolutely necessary.
Definition of Inessential
1. a. Having no essence or being.
Definition of Inessential
1. Adjective. not essential ¹
2. Adjective. lacking essence or being ¹
3. Noun. (context: often in plural) Something that is not essential ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Inessential
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inessential
Literary usage of Inessential
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Organic Evolution as the Result of the Inheritance of Acquired Characters by Gustave Heinrich Theodor Eimer, Theodor Eimer (1890)
"CHARACTERS WHICH ARE Inessential (INDIFFERENT) TO THE LIFE OF THE ORGANISM I once
devoted myself for a long time to the study of the siliceous sponges. ..."
2. Principles of the Algebra of Logic: With Examples by Alexander Macfarlane (1879)
"Dependent of inessential is inessential. 6. Inessential of dependent is inessential.
7. Repugnant of alternative is dependent. 8. ..."
3. Syllabus of a Proposed System of Logic by Augustus De Morgan (1860)
"Essential is either dependent or independent Dependent is either essential or
inessential Repugnant is either alternative or ..."
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