Antonyms for inessential
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : in-i-sen-shuh l |
Phonetic Transcription : ˌɪn ɪˈsɛn ʃəl |
Definition of inessential
- adj unnecessary
- 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
Synonyms for inessential
- accidental
- additional
- avoidable
- beside the point
- casual
- causeless
- chance
- dispensable
- excess
- exorbitant
- expendable
- extraneous
- extrinsic
- fortuitous
- futile
- gratuitous
- haphazard
- irrelevant
- lavish
- needless
- noncompulsory
- nonessential
- optional
- prodigal
- profuse
- random
- redundant
- supererogatory
- superfluous
- surplus
- uncalled-for
- uncritical
- undesirable
- unessential
- unneeded
- unrequired
- useless
- wanton
- worthless
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