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Grammar : Adj

Spell : in-i-sen-shuh l

Phonetic Transcription : ˌɪn ɪˈsɛn ʃəl

Definition of inessential

adj unnecessary

Example sentences :

It is inessential here to recount the details of these movements.
Extract from : « Four Years in Rebel Capitals » by T. C. DeLeon

None are inessential, however slight; and none are independent, however forcible.
Extract from : « The Crown of Wild Olive » by John Ruskin

It was not for Louie to spoil the sport by pointing out the inessential omission.
Extract from : « The Story of Louie » by Oliver Onions

You've been a good father in every inessential way, but no father at all in all that goes to make us men.
Extract from : « The Sins of the Children » by Cosmo Hamilton

Of course the "subliminal" theory is an inessential hypothesis, and the question of pluralism or monism is equally inessential.
Extract from : « The Letters of William James, Vol. II » by William James

Inessential, in-es-sen′shal, adj. not essential or necessary: immaterial.
Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) » by Various

In everything he sought for the essential form, the form that contains all the other inessential forms.
Extract from : « Paul Gauguin, His Life and Art » by John Gould Fletcher

To remove externals from us, to rid our minds of the illusive and the inessential, is simply to clear us for action.
Extract from : « The Hive » by Will Levington Comfort

The secret of my strength is my ability to reject every element that is harmful or inessential to the completion of my self.
Extract from : « The House of the Vampire » by George Sylvester Viereck

There is no superficial criticism, neither does he concern himself with the inessential details of the theories.
Extract from : « Rudolph Eucken » by Abel J. Jones

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