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Nonessential   /nˌɑnɪsˈɛntʃəl/   Listen
Nonessential

adjective
1.
Not of prime or central importance.  Synonym: incidental.
noun
1.
Anything that is not essential.  Synonym: inessential.  Antonym: essential.






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"Nonessential" Quotes from Famous Books



... elaborated Scottish system upon them as a perfection already consummate, and that it might even be becoming in the Scots to hold themselves prepared, in the interests of the conformity they desired, to gravitate toward what might be the English conclusions on nonessential points. At all events, he had come to see that the work was too great for the responsibility of any one man. Possibly, too, he knew by that time (April, 1642) that a general synod of English divines would very ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 • Various

... balanced and harmonious in all the proportions of his frame and features as to almost invariably compel a second glance from even a casual observer, especially if the casual observer happened to be in the nonessential creation class. ...
— The Efficiency Expert • Edgar Rice Burroughs



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