inessential
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inessential (ˌɪnɪˈsɛnʃəl) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | not necessary |
| —n | |
| 2. | anything that is not essential |
| inessenti'ality | |
| —n | |
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Inessential
is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
Example sentences
The interior of the building is comfortable but unadorned, with few decorative details or inessential spaces.
Measures visual perception, long-term visual memory, and the ability to differentiate essential from inessential details.
It reduces the blood supply to your skin and short-term inessential organs.
He taught us so much that seems obvious today: how to cut away the inessential, how to produce a distilled and expressive art.
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