Adjective: inessential ,i-ni'sen-shul
- Not absolutely necessary
"The inessential details were omitted from the final report";
- unessential
- Anything that is not essential
"they discarded all their inessentials";
- nonessential
Derived forms: inessentials
See also: accessorial, accidental, adscititious, dispensable, essentiality, essentialness, expendable, extrinsic, incidental, nonessential, secondary, unimportant, unnecessary, unneeded
Type of: thing