UNESSENTIAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unessential mean? 

• UNESSENTIAL (adjective)
  The adjective UNESSENTIAL has 1 sense:

1. not basic or fundamental

  Familiarity information: UNESSENTIAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNESSENTIAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not basic or fundamental

Synonyms:

inessential; unessential

Similar:

accessorial (nonessential but helpful)

adscititious (supplemental; not part of the real or essential nature of a thing)

accidental; incidental; nonessential (not of prime or central importance)

Also:

dispensable (capable of being dispensed with or done without)

expendable (suitable to be expended)

unimportant (not important)

extrinsic (not forming an essential part of a thing or arising or originating from the outside)

unnecessary; unneeded (not necessary)

secondary (being of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate)

Attribute:

essentiality; essentialness (basic importance)

 Context examples 

But all this part of it seemed remote and unessential.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)