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inessential

[ UK /ɪnɪsˈɛnʃə‍l/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. not basic or fundamental
  2. not absolutely necessary
NOUN
  1. anything that is not essential
    they discarded all their inessentials

How To Use inessential In A Sentence

  • Second, the Employment Tribunal's decision should be read generously and not overturned merely because of infelicitous or inappropriate statements which were looking at the matter in the round, of an inessential nature.
  • Each of these two Simple Minds records has its share of inessential material, but that is greatly outweighed by the good stuff.
  • The High Court, he said, was not an inessential appendage to the new constitutional structure.
  • The production of crockery, cutlery and toys was severely curtailed as inessentials.
  • Call me Marxist if you must, but since when does blowing away money on overpriced, inessential and short-lived goods constitute a subversive act?
  • The Nudix hydrolases thus offer an ideal system with which to study the evolution of a largely inessential protein family and its contribution to the individual biology of an organism.
  • Budgets are tight and subject to sudden change, and inessentials, such as maintenance, are cut to the bone.
  • The rule is so stern that all delight in mere incidental beauty, which painting often triumphs in, is wholly forbidden to sculpture; -- for instance, in _painting_ the branch of a tree, you may rightly represent and enjoy the lichens and moss on it, but a sculptor must not touch one of them: they are inessential to the tree's life, -- he must give the flow and bending of the branch only, else he does not enough "see Pallas" in it. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing
  • “Inessential driving” was banned eighteen months before Pearl Harbor, and soon thereafter production of rubber-soled tabi shoes was halted to save raw material. Whirlwind
  • In naturalistic novels such inessential things as a minor character's physiognomy and costume are depicted in minute detail.
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