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Unessential   Listen
adjective
Unessential  adj.  
1.
Not essential; not of prime importance; not indispensable; unimportant.
2.
Void of essence, or real being. (R.)





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Unessential" Quotes from Famous Books



... characterized by directness of treatment, by the selection, so far as possible, of the most interesting and practical matter, and by the omission of what is unessential. ...
— Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany - For High Schools and Elementary College Courses • Douglas Houghton Campbell
... write pulling letters weigh carefully every sentence, not only pruning away every unessential word but using words of Anglo-Saxon origin wherever possible rather than words of Latin derivation. "Indicate your selection" was written as the catch line for a letter in an important selling campaign, ...
— Business Correspondence • Anonymous
... is nothing but a plain reproduction on the mirror of the mind is a tame concern, Pallas. It transfers, without modification, all that is dull, and squalid, and unessential. The only memory which is worthy of those who have tasted immortality is that which has in some degree been fortified. To recollect with enjoyment is to select certain salient facts from an experience and to be oblivious of the rest; or else it is to heighten the exciting elements ...
— Hypolympia - Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy • Edmund Gosse
... speculations. But at all periods the idea that it was possible to know God and the universe was allied to the idea that all ceremonies as well as all worldly effort and indeed all active morality are superfluous[169]. All alike are unessential and trivial, and merit the attention only of those who know nothing higher. Human feelings and interests qualified and contradicted this negative and unearthly view of religion, but still popular sentiment as well as philosophic thought during the whole ...
— Hinduism and Buddhism, Vol I. (of 3) - An Historical Sketch • Charles Eliot


Words linked to "Unessential" :   essentiality, unnecessary, adscititious, nonessential, unneeded, secondary, essential, accessorial, essentialness, expendable, incidental


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