Inessential
adjective
Not important or needed.
They discussed the inessential stuff first at the meeting, before moving onto the more pressing matters.
Often appears as...
- inessential details
- inessential topics
adjective
Not important or needed.
They discussed the inessential stuff first at the meeting, before moving onto the more pressing matters.
Often appears as...
- inessential details
- inessential topics
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Prioritization
Use 'inessential' to describe items lowest in priority that could be skipped or removed without impact.
During the budget cuts, the team identified inessential expenses for elimination.
Pro Tip 2/3Subjectivity
'Inessential' can be subjective, what's inessential to one might be vital to another.
She considered the fancy decorations inessential, but her partner loved them.
Pro Tip 3/3Reduction
Use 'inessential' when suggesting something can be reduced or simplified without loss of function.
The report was full of inessential information, making it longer than necessary.
Pro Tip 1/3Prioritization
Use 'inessential' to describe items lowest in priority that could be skipped or removed without impact.
During the budget cuts, the team identified inessential expenses for elimination.
Pro Tip 2/3Subjectivity
'Inessential' can be subjective, what's inessential to one might be vital to another.
She considered the fancy decorations inessential, but her partner loved them.
Pro Tip 3/3Reduction
Use 'inessential' when suggesting something can be reduced or simplified without loss of function.
The report was full of inessential information, making it longer than necessary.
Pro Tip 1/3Prioritization
Use 'inessential' to describe items lowest in priority that could be skipped or removed without impact.
During the budget cuts, the team identified inessential expenses for elimination.
Pro Tip 2/3Subjectivity
'Inessential' can be subjective, what's inessential to one might be vital to another.
She considered the fancy decorations inessential, but her partner loved them.
Pro Tip 3/3Reduction
Use 'inessential' when suggesting something can be reduced or simplified without loss of function.
The report was full of inessential information, making it longer than necessary.
Compare with
extraneousgratuitousincidentalirrelevancynecessaryredundantsecondarysuperfluous
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New York -- before the...
to try and see our true selves, or perhaps pass through to another world. Or, in the words of F. Scott Fitzgerald, "As the moon rose higher, the inessential houses began to melt away until gradually I became aware of the old island
Video examples
New York -- before the...
to try and see our true selves, or perhaps pass through to another world. Or, in the words of F. Scott Fitzgerald, "As the moon rose higher, the inessential houses began to melt away until gradually I became aware of the old island
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Quote examples
J. K. Rowling
English Author
Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
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John Drinkwater
English Poet
To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential.
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Dan Levy
American Comedian
The fact that I like to buy inessential things to make myself feel better is neither a secret nor something I'm particularly proud of. And I know I'm not alone.
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Peter Zumthor
Swiss Architect
In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language.
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Helmut Jahn
German Architect
Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.
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J. K. Rowling
English Author
Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
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J. K. Rowling
English Author
Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
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John Drinkwater
English Poet
To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential.
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Dan Levy
American Comedian
The fact that I like to buy inessential things to make myself feel better is neither a secret nor something I'm particularly proud of. And I know I'm not alone.
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Peter Zumthor
Swiss Architect
In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language.
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Helmut Jahn
German Architect
Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.
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J. K. Rowling
English Author
Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
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