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Definitions: Nonessential |
NonessentialAdjective1. Not of prime or central importance; "nonessential to the integral meanings of poetry"- Pubs.MLA. Noun1. Anything that is not essential; "they discarded all their inessentials". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "nonessential" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1902. (references) |
Synonyms: NonessentialSynonyms: incidental (adj), inessential (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: necessity (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Extrinsicality | Adjective: derived from without; objective; extrinsic, extrinsical; extraneous; (foreign); modal, adventitious; ascititious, adscititious; incidental, accidental, nonessential; contingent, fortuitous. |
Unimportance | Adjective: unimportant; of little account, of small account, of no account, of little importance, of no importance; immaterial; unessential, nonessential; indifferent. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Nonessential |
| English words defined with "nonessential": accessorial, Adiaphorist. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Sudan | A U.S. embassy employee was shot on April 16, 1986. Immediately following this incident, all nonessential personnel and all dependents left for 6 months. (references) |
Political Economy | BANGLADESH | On August 15, 2001, the NBR issued a statutory order to impose supplementary duties on imports of numerous nonessential consumer items, ranging from 5-15 percent. (references) |
Worker Rights | Sri Lanka | The law prohibits retribution against strikers in nonessential sectors. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | We are closing many nonessential military installations. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Nonessential" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Nonessential" is used about 8 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% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
nonessential | 14 |
acid amino nonessential | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "nonessential"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Arabic | لا فائدة منه (pointless, unproductiveness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 非本质. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | unwesentlich (immaterial, inessential, inessentially, insignificant, irrelevant, marginal, marginally, negligible, unessential, unimportant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | επουσιώδησ (circumstantial, immaterial, insubstantial, non essential, unessential, unsubstantial), ασήμαντοσ (fiddling, immaterial, inconsequential, insignificant, minor, negligible, niggling, nobody, nugatory, paltry, piddling, potty, purportless, slight, trifling, trivial, unessential, unimportant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | tak perlu (unnecessary), tak penting (immaterial, unimportant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 不急 (in no hurry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ふきゅう (deterioration, diffusion, eternal, everlasting, immortal, immortality, imperishable, in no hurry, rot, spread). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | onessentialnay несущественный (accidental, casual, dispensable, immaterial, importless, inappreciable, inessential, non essential, of no consequence, of no great importance, omissible, unessential, unvital). (various references) gereksiz şey (fifth wheel, inessential, non essential, superfluities, superfluity), gereksiz (digressive, excrescent, gratuitous, idle, indecent, indiscreet, inessential, needless, no, non essential, otiose, redundant, supererogatory, superfluous, uncalled for, unjustifiable, unnecessary, unneeded, unneedful), önemsiz (back burner, derisive, derisory, dinky, empty, fiddling, footling, immaterial, inconsequential, inconsiderable, inconspicuous, indifferent, inessential, insignificant, jerkwater, minute, negligible, no-account, non essential, 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) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "nonessential": nonessentials. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "nonessential" (pronounced nÄ'nuse"nkhul) |
| 5 | -e" n kh u l | consequential, credential, deferential, differential, existential, exponential, inconsequential, influential, preferential, presidential, providential, prudential, residential, reverential, sequential, tangential, torrential. |
| 4 | -n kh u l | circumstantial, insubstantial, substantial. |
| 3 | -kh u l | bestial, celestial, hatchel, nuptial. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-l-n-n-n-o-s-s-t" | |
-2 letters: innateness. | |
-3 letters: alienness, aloneness, antisense, essential, inaneness, insensate, insolates, insolents, nonsaline, santonins, sensation, sentinels, solanines, tensional. | |
-4 letters: anisoles, antlions, astonies, elastins, elations, enations, enolases, essonite, etesians, insanest, insolate, insolent, isolates, lateness, leanness, loneness, nailsets, neatness, neonates, nonelite, nonsense, noteless, onanists, salients, saltines, santonin, sentinel, setlines, solanine, solanins, sonatine, stanines, teniases, tennises, tensions, toenails. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-l-n-n-n-o-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: nonessentials. | |
+2 letters: intolerantness. | |
+4 letters: intensionalities, intolerantnesses, nonestablishment. | |
+5 letters: consequentialness, environmentalisms, environmentalists, internationalises, involuntarinesses, nonestablishments. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 6F 6E 65 73 73 65 6E 74 69 61 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. --- -. . ... ... . -. - .. .- .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01101111 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011 01100101 01101110 01110100 01101001 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N o n e s s e n t i a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 006F 006E 0065 0073 0073 0065 006E 0074 0069 0061 006C |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)488180718585718086756778 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Quotations: Speeches 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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