1. Not basic or fundamental
   - unessential 
2. Not absolutely necessary

1. Anything that is not essential
   "they discarded all their inessentials"
   - nonessential

Derived forms: inessentials

See also: accessorial, adscititious, dispensable, essentiality, essentialness, expendable, extrinsic, incidental, inessentiality, nonessential, secondary, unimportant, unnecessary, unneeded

Type of: thing

Antonym: essential

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