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US
/ˌnɑnɪˈsɛnʃəɫ/
]
NOUN
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anything that is not essential
they discarded all their inessentials
ADJECTIVE
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not of prime or central importance
nonessential to the integral meanings of poetry
the character's motives remain accidental to the plot
How To Use nonessential In A Sentence
- Facility restrooms might be a treasure trove of nonessential electric loads.
- If your expenses exceed your income, you'll need to cut back on nonessential items.
- Taking bits and pieces of longer works and patching them together in an anthology is usually legitimized by claims of getting to the essence of the matter and saving time as an ‘expert’ peels away the nonessential.
- Open your current bulletin and cut out anything that is nonessential. Christianity Today
- There is not any good reason for people to be using water on nonessentials. Times, Sunday Times
- Most American shopping malls are stuffed to the rafters with nonessential apparel, giftware, and accessories such as cards and collectible shops or stores devoted to Tibetan stone figurines or the paintings of Thomas Kinkade. What Women Want
- The art of reading, as of learning, is this: … to retain the essential, to forget the nonessential. Adolf Hitler
- However, given that H1 is not essential in simple metazoans, such as filamentous fungi and also in specialized protozoa, we have good reason to suspect it might likewise be nonessential for less specialized protozoa. Another Protozoan and Front-Loading
- Both sites were sold as part of Waterford Crystal's programme of disposing of nonessential assets.
- Once the eggs hatch, the Larvae burrow inside the host and begin consuming nonessential tissues.