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Adjectives (5)
incidental
adj. not of prime or central importance; "nonessential to the integral meanings of poetry"- Pubs.MLA
unimportant
adj. not important; "a relatively unimportant feature of the system"; "the question seems unimportant"
extraneous
adj. not essential; "the ballet struck me as extraneous and somewhat out of keeping with the rest of the play"
inessential, dispensable
adj. not absolutely necessary
Fuzzynyms (22)
expendable
adj. suitable to be expended
unimportant
adj. not important; "a relatively unimportant feature of the system"; "the question seems unimportant"
trifling, paltry, negligible, piddling, piffling
adj. not worth considering; "he considered the prize too paltry for the lives it must cost"; "piffling efforts"; "a trifling matter"
accidental, adventitious
adj. associated by chance and not an integral part; "poetry is something to which words are the accidental, not by any means the essential form"- Frederick W. Robertson; "they had to decide whether his misconduct was adventitious or the result of a flaw in his character"
inconsequent, inconsequential
adj. lacking worth or importance; "his work seems trivial and inconsequential"; "the quite inconsequent fellow was managed like a puppet"
insignificant, unimportant
adj. not important or noteworthy
inessential, nonessential, dispensable
adj. not absolutely necessary
expendable
adj. suitable to be expended
unimportant
adj. not important; "a relatively unimportant feature of the system"; "the question seems unimportant"
expendable
adj. suitable to be expended
nonessential, extraneous
adj. not essential; "the ballet struck me as extraneous and somewhat out of keeping with the rest of the play"
unimportant
adj. not important; "a relatively unimportant feature of the system"; "the question seems unimportant"
Synonyms (27)
supplementary, supplemental, complemental, complementary, completing
adj. acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole)
accidental, adventitious
adj. associated by chance and not an integral part; "poetry is something to which words are the accidental, not by any means the essential form"- Frederick W. Robertson; "they had to decide whether his misconduct was adventitious or the result of a flaw in his character"
additional, adscititious
adj. added or derived from something outside; not inherent; "an adscititious habit rather than an inherent taste"
alien, foreign
adj. not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something; "an economic theory alien to the spirit of capitalism"; "the mysticism so foreign to the French mind and temper"; "jealousy is foreign to her nature"
external, outside, extraneous
adj. coming from the outside; "extraneous light in the camera spoiled the photograph"; "relying upon an extraneous income"; "disdaining outside pressure groups"
spare, excess, extra, surplus, supernumerary, redundant, supererogatory, superfluous
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"
gratuitous, needless, uncalled-for
adj. unnecessary and unwarranted; "a strikers' tent camp...was burned with needless loss of life"
spare, reserve
adj. kept in reserve especially for emergency use; "a reserve supply of food"; "a spare tire"; "spare parts"
Antonyms (2)
essential
adj. basic and fundamental; "the essential feature"
necessary
adj. absolutely essential
nonessential
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