Inessential

Definitions: Inessential

Inessential

Adjective

1. Not basic or fundamental.

2. Not absolutely necessary.

Noun

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

Date "inessential" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1762. (references)

Etymology: Inessential \In`es*sen"tial\, adjective. [Prefix in- not essential: compare to the French expression inessentiel.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Inessential

Synonyms: unessential (adj), nonessential (n). (additional references)

Antonyms: essential (adj), necessity (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Inessential

English words defined with "inessential": no-frills. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	And as the moon rose higher, the inessential houses began to melt away till gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors' eyes, A fresh green breast of the new world. (New York: A Documentary Film; writing credit: Ric Burns; James Sanders)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Inessential Woman (reference) INESSENTIAL WOMEN (reference) (more book examples)

Music	The Inessential Uncle Bonsai [LIVE] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Inessential" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Inessential" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	17	85,106

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "inessential"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i parëndësishëm (dispensable, exiguous, immaterial, inconsequential, indifferent, insignificant, light, minor, minute, negligible, nugatory, one horse, paltry, petty, piddling, puny, small, small time, tenuous, tin, trivial, unessential, unimportant). (various references)

Arabic		‏غير حيوي, ‏غير جوهري (accidental, extraneous, extrinsic, unessential), ‏شىء غير جوهري. (various references)

Bulgarian		второстепенен (accessary, accessory, accidental, by, bye, collateral, lesser, minor, off, second, secondary, side, subordinate, tributary, two bit), несъществен (accidental, incidental, insubstantial, non essential, pasteboard, trivial, unessential, unsubstantial), нещо несъществено (accidental, fringe), незначителен (cheap, dinky, fiddling, fractional, frivolous, immaterial, imperceptible, inappreciable, inconsiderable, inglorious, insignificant, least, little, mean, minor, minute, negligible, niggling, nominal, noteless, nugatory, obscure, one horse, outside, paltry, peddling, pettifogging, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, pimping, pokey, poky, poor, potty, puerile, pygmy, rabbity, scrubby, slight, small, small time, subfusc, tenuous, third class, tiddly, trifling, trivial, two-by-four, twopenny-halfpenny, unconsidered, unimportant). (various references)

French		superflu, non essentiel. (various references)

German		unwesentlich (immaterial, inessentially, insignificant, irrelevant, marginal, marginally, negligible, nonessential, unessential, unimportant). (various references)

Hebrew		לא חיו� י (extrinsic). (various references)

Hungarian		nem lényegbevágó, lényegtelen (beside the point, beyond the mark, frivolous, immaterial, inconsequential, irrelative, irrelevant, marginal, non essential, one horse, to be beside the point, to be of no consequence, unessential, unimportant). (various references)

Italian		non essenziale (not essential). (various references)

Manx		neuymmyrchagh (needlessness, redundant), neufemoil (non-essential). (various references)

Pig Latin		inessentialay

Portuguese		que não pode escapar. (various references)

Romanian		neesenţial (accidental, dispensable, unessential). (various references)

Russian		несущественный (accidental, casual, dispensable, immaterial, importless, inappreciable, non essential, nonessential, of no consequence, of no great importance, omissible, unessential, unvital). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nebitan (odd, unessential, unsubstantial). (various references)

Spanish		no esencial (incidental, non essential, not essential, unessential). (various references)

Swedish		oviktig (immaterial, inconsequent, inconsequential, indifferent, light, minor, of no account, of no importance, unimportant), oväsentlig (accidental, immaterial, importless, inappreciable, incidental, indifferent, unessential). (various references)

Turkish		lüzumsuz şey, lüzumsuz (excessive, needless, redundant, unnecessary, unneeded), gereksiz şey (fifth wheel, non essential, nonessential, superfluities, superfluity), gereksiz (digressive, excrescent, gratuitous, idle, indecent, indiscreet, needless, no, non essential, nonessential, otiose, redundant, supererogatory, superfluous, uncalled for, unjustifiable, unnecessary, unneeded, unneedful), önemsiz (back burner, derisive, derisory, dinky, empty, fiddling, footling, immaterial, inconsequential, inconsiderable, inconspicuous, indifferent, insignificant, jerkwater, minute, negligible, no-account, non essential, nonessential, not healthy, not worth a fig, null, of no account, of no significance, of no worth, one horse, paltry, paper, peanut, peddling, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, poky, potty, quotidian, scrubby, secondary, slight, small, smalltime, trifling, trivial, tuppeny, unessential, unimportant, unsubstantial, worthless, yeasty). (various references)

Ukranian		нематеріальний (immaterial, incorporeal, non-substantial), незначний (bare, exiguous, imponderable, inconsiderable, insignificant, little, minor, minute, negligible, niggling, nugacious, off, one horse, outside, petty, poor, potty, puny, pygmy, slender, slight, small, trivial). (various references)

Vietnamese		không cần thiết không có thực chất, cái không cần thiết. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "inessential": inessentials. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Inessential" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: insectival. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "inessential" (pronounced 'In`es*sen"tial'): Abbatial, Accrementitial, Agential, Antenuptial, Beneficential, bigential, Circumferential, Coessential, Coinitial, Comitial, Complacential, Concupiscential, Conferential, Confidential, Consequential, Consubstantial, Deferential, Desinential, Diplomatial, Distantial, Equipotential, Esential, Essential, Evidential, Excrescential, Existential, Expediential, Experiential, exponential, Futuritial, Immartial, IMPARTIAL, inconsequential, Indulgential, inferential, Inflential, insubstantial, Intelligential, Interequinoctial, interstitial, jurisprudential, martial, Nutritial, Obediential, Omnipresential, partial, Pestilential, Postnuptial, Precedential, Preceptial. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-i-l-n-n-s-s-t"
	-2 letters: alienists, alienness, antisense, einsteins, essential, insensate, sentinels.
	-3 letters: alienist, anilines, einstein, elastins, etesians, insanest, isatines, lateness, leanness, lenities, litanies, nailsets, neatness, nineties, salients, saltines, sanities, sanitise, sentinel, setlines, sienites, stanines, teniases, teniasis, tennises, tininess.
	-4 letters: aniline, anilins, asinine, easiest, elastin, enisles, enlists, ensiles, entails, entases, entasis, etesian, inanest, innless, instals, instils, intense, intines.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-i-l-n-n-s-s-t"
	+1 letter: inessentials, internalises.
	+2 letters: identicalness, initialnesses, inviolateness, painterliness, plaintiveness, saintlinesses.
	+3 letters: essentializing, indelicateness, inevitableness, inimitableness, insatiableness, intangibleness, intercessional, militantnesses, quintessential, sensationalise, sensationalize, sentimentalise, sentimentalism, sentimentalist.
	+4 letters: clandestinities, generalisations, identicalnesses, incrementalisms, incrementalists, indomitableness, indubitableness, inheritableness, intelligentsias, inviolatenesses, painterlinesses, plaintivenesses, semicentennials, sensationalised, sensationalises, sensationalized, sensationalizes, sentimentalised, sentimentalises, sentimentalisms, sentimentalists, sentimentalizes.
	+5 letters: dimensionalities, extensionalities, externalisations, inarticulateness, indelicatenesses, indisputableness, inevitablenesses, inhospitableness, inimitablenesses, insatiablenesses, intangiblenesses, intensionalities, interminableness, manipulativeness, quintessentially, sentimentalising, sentimentalities, sesquicentennial.
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