'Nonessential' definitions:
Definition of 'nonessential'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Not of prime or central importance; "nonessential to the integral meanings of poetry"- Pubs.MLA [syn: incidental, nonessential]
noun
Anything that is not essential; "they discarded all their inessentials" [syn: inessential, nonessential] [ant: essential, necessary, necessity, requirement, requisite]
Definition of 'Nonessential'
From: GCIDE
- Nonessential \Non`es*sen"tial\, a. Not essential. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Nonessential'
From: GCIDE
- Nonessential \Non`es*sen"tial\, n. A thing not essential. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'nonessential'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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