nonessential

4 definitions found

nonessential - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Nonessential \Non`es*sen"tial\, a.
     Not essential.
     [1913 Webster]

  Nonessential \Non`es*sen"tial\, n.
     A thing not essential.
     [1913 Webster]

nonessential - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  nonessential
      adj 1: not of prime or central importance; "nonessential to the
             integral meanings of poetry"- Pubs.MLA [syn:
             incidental, nonessential]
      n 1: anything that is not essential; "they discarded all their
           inessentials" [syn: inessential, nonessential] [ant:
           essential, necessary, necessity, requirement,
           requisite]

nonessential - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  99 Moby Thesaurus words for "nonessential":
     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