n. anything that is not essential; "they discarded all their inessentials"

adj. not basic or fundamental

adj. not absolutely necessary

adj. unnecessary and unwarranted; "a strikers' tent camp...was burned with needless loss of life"

adj. suitable to be expended

adj. not essential; "the ballet struck me as extraneous and somewhat out of keeping with the rest of the play"

adj. not important; "a relatively unimportant feature of the system"; "the question seems unimportant"

adj. capable of being dispensed with or done without; "dispensable items of personal property"

adj. suitable to be expended

adj. not forming an essential part of a thing or arising or originating from the outside; "extrinsic evidence"; "an extrinsic feature of the new building"; "that style is something extrinsic to the subject"; "looking for extrinsic aid"

adj. being of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate; "the stone will be hauled to a secondary crusher"; "a secondary source"; "a secondary issue"; "secondary streams"

adj. not important; "a relatively unimportant feature of the system"; "the question seems unimportant"

adj. not necessary

adj. more than is needed, desired, or required; "trying to lose excess weight"; "found some extra change lying on the dresser"; "yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant"; "skills made redundant by technological advance"; "sleeping in the spare room"; "supernumerary ornamentation"; "it was supererogatory of her to gloat"; "delete superfluous (or unnecessary) words"; "extra ribs as well as other supernumerary internal parts"; "surplus cheese distributed to the needy"

adj. unnecessary and unwarranted; "a strikers' tent camp...was burned with needless loss of life"

adj. kept in reserve especially for emergency use; "a reserve supply of food"; "a spare tire"; "spare parts"

n. anything indispensable; "food and shelter are necessities of life"; "the essentials of the good life"; "allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions"; "a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained"

adj. basic and fundamental; "the essential feature"

adj. absolutely essential