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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Nonessential \Non'es*sen"tial\, adjective Not essential.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Nonessential \Non'es*sen"tial\, noun A thing not essential.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
nonessential
adjective: not of prime or central importance; "nonessential to the integral meanings of poetry"- Pubs.MLA [syn: {incidental}]
noun: anything that is not essential; "they discarded all their inessentials" [syn: {inessential}] [ant: {necessity}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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