nonessential
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Definition
- Adjective: Not absolutely necessary; of secondary or minor importance. Something that is is not required for the basic function, existence, or core meaning of something else.
- Noun (usually plural: ): An item, feature, or element that is not necessary. are things one can live or function without.
Examples of Usage
Adjective:
- During the budget review, all nonessential spending was frozen.
- The report includes both essential data and nonessential background information.
- For this recipe, nutmeg is nonessential; the dish will still taste good without it.
Noun:
- We packed only clothes and medicine, leaving all nonessentials behind.
- When traveling light, you quickly learn to distinguish between essentials and nonessentials.
Advanced Usage
- The term is often used in formal or technical contexts like economics (), biology (), government (), and philosophy to distinguish core from peripheral attributes.
- "Deem nonessential": To officially classify something as not required.
- The committee deemed the proposed appendix nonessential to the main argument.
Variants and Related Words
- Inessential: A direct synonym with identical meaning and usage to .
- Dispensable: (Adjective) Capable of being dispensed with or done without; replaceable.
- Superfluous: (Adjective) Exceeding what is sufficient or necessary; extra to the point of being wasteful or unnecessary.
Synonyms
- Adjective: Unnecessary, incidental, peripheral, secondary, superfluous, dispensable, extra, optional.
- Noun: Luxury, extra, frill, accessory.
Antonyms
- Adjective: Essential, necessary, vital, crucial, indispensable, fundamental, core.
- Noun: Essential, necessity, requirement, staple.
Adjective
- not of prime or central importance
- nonessential to the integral meanings of poetry- Pubs.MLA
Noun
- anything that is not essential
- they discarded all their inessentials