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inessential
/ ˌɪnɪˈsɛnʃəl /
adjective
- not necessary
noun
- anything that is not essential
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Derived Forms
- ˌinesˌsentiˈality, noun
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Other Words From
- ines·senti·ali·ty noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of inessential1
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Example Sentences
Critics claimed pharmaceutical companies engaged in manipulative marketing, pushed “inessential” medications and charged astronomically high drug prices, especially in the global South.
Frailties like that seem inessential when it comes time to review a whole lifetime's contributions.
It is inessential here to recount the details of these movements.
The critics of the preceding generations wasted their energies upon inessential details.
To remove externals from us, to rid our minds of the illusive and the inessential, is simply to clear us for action.
We may ignore such inessential accretions, and confine ourselves to the beliefs which all mystics share.
The secret of my strength is my ability to reject every element that is harmful or inessential to the completion of my self.
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